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Re: Deprecate -funit-at-a-time


On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:15:22AM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> Richard Guenther wrote:
> >>However I will be happy to change the spec line I have to imply
> >>-fno-toplevel-reorder -fno-section-anchors and output message (or not
> >>output it and just silently accept it as alias).
> 
> Why -fno-section-anchors?

-fsection-anchors reorders variables, which causes e.g. glibc
miscompilation.  See
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-hacker/2008-04/msg00001.html

	Jakub


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