On Thu, 25 May 2000, John Hawkinson wrote:

> It seems to me that one of two things will happen:
> 
> a)   Ambiguous symbols will be resolved in favor of hex digits (0xdead).
> b)   Ambiguous symbols will be resolved in favor of symbols (netbsd:dead).
>      (do note that _dead is not meaningful in the ELF world, I think).

_dead is meaningful. Say I've named a function "_dead". :-) What's not
meaningful is the auto-prepending of _'s.

> One will have preference.
> 
> In the instance of backwords compatibility, it seems to me that b) should
> function.

Sounds good. :-)

Take care,

Bill