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When a symbol only has a weak definition, this definition will be picked. When a symbol has both a weak and a regular definition, the regular definition will be picked instead.
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This has been extracted out of rust-lang/rust#134522. |
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When a symbol only has a weak definition, this definition will be picked. When a symbol has both a weak and a regular definition, the regular definition will be picked instead.
In the future the allocator shim may be replaced by weak definitions. This already adds support to simplify things in the future.