Re: multiple defs. of TLS common symbols?

[Gary Funck <gary at intrepid dot com>]

On 01/14/10 08:26:31, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Online I found this:
> 
>     http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/c_evolution.html
> 
>     [T]he ANSI Draft Standard finally settled on definition-reference
>     rules in 1988.  Common-block public storage is still admitted as
>     an acceptable variation by the standard.

Thanks, I found some dicussion in the C99 Rationle document,
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/C99RationaleV5.10.pdf
section 6.2.2, "Linkage of Identifiers" (pp. 32-34).

The email thread on this mailing list that I was referring to is here:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2009-04/msg00812.html