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+; Method arguments were being checked for collisions at the global scope before
+; the method object was created by the parser.  Because of this, false collisions
+; could occur that would cause the following error message to be produced:
+;
+;    Redefinition of value named 'X' in the 'int *' type plane!
+;
+; Fixed by delaying binding of variable names until _after_ the method symtab is
+; created.
+;
+
+%X = global int 4
+
+declare int "xxx"(int * %X)
+
+implementation
+