[Bug gas/23153] gas: distinct input and output files are not properly detected on not-fully-emulated POSIX platforms

[nickc at redhat dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23153

--- Comment #9 from Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to Florian Weimer from comment #8)

> On XFS, inode 0 can be used for regular files created by applications.  Only
> newer versions have code in them to avoid inode 0.  Some old applications
> have comments that inode 0 indicates a deleted directory entry, but this
> appears to be an invention and not something that has ever occurred in
> practice.

My assumption is that even if inode 0 is valid for the filesystem it is
extremely unlikely that this value will just happen to be used for an assembler
input file,
and extremely unlucky if this file is then used as the output from the
assembler too.  So basically, it is not worth worrying about.

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