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[v2,0/3] gas: dot handling

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Jan Beulich Dec. 19, 2024, 10:05 a.m. UTC 
  The fallout from dealing with PR gas/27217 has kept bothering me, so I
finally took the time to see whether we can't get things into better
shape. Before it goes in, especially the naming and defaulting aspects
(see the last patches for a respective remark) may want sorting, as in:
potentially doing a little differently. Input appreciated.

1: gas: make deferred expression evaluation generally latch dot
2: aarch64: re-work PR gas/27217 fix again
3: gas: consolidate . latching

Do we really need both define_sym_at_dot() and symbol_set_value_now()? Their
sole differences being that the latter
- also works for local symbols,
- uses symbol_set_frag() and thus S_CLEAR_WEAKREFR() (where it's unclear to me
  why such a symbol would need weakrefr cleared, but one passed to
  define_sym_at_dot() wouldn't).

Jan