This can be disabled (to save a bit of space) with the NO_KERNEL_RCSIDS
options, which is present but commented out in the ALPHA config file.
In ELF-format kernels, these strings are present in the kernel binary but
are not loaded into memory. (In ECOFF-format kernels, there's no easy way
to keep them from being loaded, so they _are_ loaded into memory.)
using __weak_alias in libc, __indr_reference should probably be defined
to do nothing (but defined, so that duplicate functions/variables aren't
compiled). However, when not using __weak_alias, __indr_reference causes
them to be omitted completely, which is a lose. So, until weak aliases
are going to be used, don't define __weak_alias or __indr_reference.
cgd