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

From: Scott Ellis <scotte@warped.com>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: toolchain-manager@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
	netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: toolchain/35964: SHAREDSTRINGS breaks build
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 11:24:12 -0800

 David Laight wrote:
 >  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.
 
 I tend to agree, however it is documented in /usr/share/mk/bsd.README
 (which is referenced from mk.conf(5)).
 
 We should probably either remove it from bsd.README, or make it work.