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Re: typeof woes in symbol renaming, or glibc x gcc

From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
To: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>, "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: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 00:55:39 -0700
Subject: Re: typeof woes in symbol renaming, or glibc x gcc

--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.

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.

--
Mark Mitchell                mark@codesourcery.com
CodeSourcery, LLC            http://www.codesourcery.com

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