PR40011 -fwhole-file problems

[Richard Guenther]

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Paul Richard Thomas
<paul.richard.thomas@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Richard,
>
> Thank you for your response to this - I am very pleased that you
> continue to take an interest in gfortran.
>
>> The inliner is perfectly capable of inlining functions with static
>> variables.  Likely GFortran messes up the flags for the static
>> vars so they get copied during inlining (which is what you see above,
>> use -uid on the dump flag to see the DECL uids).
>
> How does one deal with this?  By putting TREE_STATIC variables in
> global scope?  I could not immediately discern from tree.def or tree.h
> the sense in which gfortran messes up the flags.

I don't know.  Can you point me to a testcase where I can reproduce
the issue?  Basically the middle-end calls auto_var_in_fn_p to
see if a declaration is "auto" or "static".  Are your specific cases
maybe CONST_DECLs?

Richard.

> Cheers
>
> Paul
>
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