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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Markus Deuling <deuling@de.ibm.com>, 	GDB Patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>, 	Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>, 	Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>, eliz@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PING 2] [rfc]: Framework for looking up multiply defined global         symbols  in shared libraries
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> It's up to Eli to approve NEWS entries, but it has been my
> understanding that NEWS should be about user-visible features, not
> internal infrastructure changes.  I'd reword to this something like:
> "When looking up multiply-defined global symbols, GDB will now prefer
> the symbol definition in the current shared library if it was built
> using the -Bsymbolic linker option." 

I personally agree.

-- 
Joel