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From: David Holland <dholland@cs.toronto.edu>
To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra)
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 > > Most likely this is an ELF problem because of the "_" semantic change
 > > on C symbols vs. asm symbols.
 > > 
 > > I'm still suspicious of the rationale for that change, but whatever...
 > 
 > The rationale is no mystery.  It comes directly from the ELF
 > specification, aka "System V Application Binary Interface,"
 > Prentice-Hall, 1990, ISBN 0-13-877598-2, page 4-25:
 > 
 >     External C symbols have the same names in C, assembly code, and
 >     object files' symbol tables.

That's not a rationale, just a standard :-)

(what *was* the rationale, anyway?)
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