On Thu, 25 May 2000, John Hawkinson wrote:

# Your use of the word "must" is unclear to the point of confusion;
# I do not know if you mean "ddb must" or "people who want deterministic
# resutls out of ddb must":

Sorry, meant "people...must".

# 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).

Noted, thank you for that.

# One will have preference.

A good thing.

# In the instance of backwords compatibility, it seems to me that b) should
# function.

backwards compatibility, hell.  In the interest of common sense, it seems
to me that b) should not only function but be the default.

# --jhawk


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