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Re: PATCH: Update release notes to mention Emacs issue
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Eric Botcazou wrote:
>> Shouldn't we specifiy which versions of Emacs are affected? (I understood
>> that current versions have been fixed.)
> No, the problem was detected about one month ago on SPARC/Solaris. Only
> the CVS tree is patched.
So I committed the patch below. We always have to keep in mind that
someone may read our release notes in one or two years.
Gerald
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produce an error message if used.</li>
<li>GCC 3.3.1 automatically places zero-initialized variables in
- the <code>.bss</code> section on some operating systems. GNU
- Emacs will not work correctly when using this optimization.
- Therefore, you should use
- <code>-fno-zero-initialized-in-bss</code> to build GNU
- Emacs.</li>
+ the <code>.bss</code> section on some operating systems.
+ Versions of GNU Emacs up to (and including) 21.3 will not work
+ correctly when using this optimization; you can use
+ <code>-fno-zero-initialized-in-bss</code> to disable it.</li>
</ul>
<h2>General Optimizer Improvements</h2>