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From: Fernando Oleo Blanco <irvise_ml@irvise.xyz>
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Okay. I have a much much clearer picture now.

I have spoken with a couple of people in the NetBSD IRC. NetBSD has been 
revamping their ABI, see for example, the UNIX time.

Some things were going to break. In the case of some of the "standard" 
functions, they created a RENAME macro to hide this changes. It leaves a 
weak symbol reference that is empty and not resolved by the linker.

After taking a much closer look into the patch set of JMarino, I 
realised that he had already dealt with this issue. For example, see: 
https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc/blob/27a8f94efc02f33007d20a4ba6a8aaa369361b95/lang/gcc6-aux/files/diff-ada#L1685

I think I am going to use the strategy that Simon pointed out. Since 
that would be the most maintainable way for the future... The patching 
is going to be much longer than I expected.

Regards,

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Fernando Oleo Blanco
https://irvise.xyz