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Re: typeof woes in symbol renaming, or glibc x gcc
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: "gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, "jakub at redhat dot com" <jakub at redhat dot com>
- Date: 15 Aug 2002 18:12:55 -0300
- Subject: Re: typeof woes in symbol renaming, or glibc x gcc
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <31000000.1029311739@warlock.codesourcery.com>
On Aug 14, 2002, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> --On Wednesday, August 14, 2002 01:28:52 AM -0300 Alexandre Oliva
> <aoliva@redhat.com> wrote:
>> A recent change in glibc exposed a latent bug in GCC. Glibc uses some
>> tricks to rename symbols, that have worked on functions for a while,
>> but that had never been used on data symbols, and they happened to
>> malfunction on platforms that defined ASM_OUTPUT_EXTERNAL (IA64, MIPS
>> and a few others). It failed because, given the following code:
> OK, thanks.
For the 3.2 branch too?
> I will note that this was the one of the easier patches to approve in
> a long time. Excellent description of the problem, as well as a nice
> clean fix.
Thanks :-) After such a long time away from this forum, I'm happy I
came back doing something right :-)
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