[Bug gold/19842] LTO build fails to write call address for weak symbol reference

[ccoutant at gmail dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19842

--- Comment #22 from Cary Coutant <ccoutant at gmail dot com> ---
> Hmmm. Unless this was part of an attempt to preserve existing behavior while
> moving from a separate hash table to using the new flags, it looks like an
> unrelated change that was slipped into this patch without any comment or
> justification. I hope Alan can remember what this was about (it's been
> almost 5 years).

There's this:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12696#c1

"...When we have a weakly defined symbol in an IR bfd, it isn't overridden by a
weakly defined symbol in the real bfd, as per the usual behaviour of weak
symbols...."

That doesn't quite explain the patch, though.

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