g++ otimizes out const globals

[Mike Stump]

> To: egcs-bugs@egcs.cygnus.com
> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 11:11:07 -0800
> From: John Milford <jwm@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>

> 	A simple test case would be one line :

> echo const int foo = 10; > test.c

> gcc -O3 -S test.c produces:
>         .file   "test.c"
> gcc2_compiled.:
> ___gnu_compiled_c:
> .globl _name1
> .text
>         .align 2,0x90
>         .type    _name1,@object
>         .size    _name1,4
> _name1:
>         .long 1

> g++ -O -S test.c produces:
>         .file   "test.c"
> gcc2_compiled.:
> ___gnu_compiled_cplusplus:

> 	I have not been able to find anything in C++ that would
> justify this, but my Stroustroup is fairly old.

Not a bug.  If you want to report that gdb doesn't know what value foo
has, that is fine, and it would be nice to pass the value of
`constants' like this to gdb, but if you do, you should be more
explicit about it.  Off hand, I can't guess why you thought this was a
bug.