The following reply was made to PR toolchain/35964; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: toolchain/35964: SHAREDSTRINGS breaks build
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 08:33:16 +0000

 On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 11:10:03PM +0000, scotte@warped.com wrote:
 > >Number:         35964
 > >Category:       toolchain
 > >Synopsis:       Setting SHAREDSTRINGS=yes causes build to fail
 
 The whole operation is rather pointless.
 Recent versions of gcc and gld consprire to merge strings at the link
 phase, and without making parts of the C source painful to read.
 
 	David
 
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 David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk