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Re: -fzero-initialized-in-bss again
- From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at act-europe dot fr>
- To: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 18:17:13 +0200
- Subject: Re: -fzero-initialized-in-bss again
- References: <10405011530.AA09902@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
> I have non clue what a "common variable" might mean.
In Ada? Then that could simply mean that Ada doesn't need them. We could
then put every uninitialized variable in .bss unconditionally.
> What we are discussing is what object file section each variable
> should go into. And what I'm saying is that this shouldn't depend on
> whether a variable was written in C or Ada: it should only be a function
> of language-independent attributes.
Weird. I was under the impression that this would depend upon the semantics
of the language.
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Eric Botcazou