[wwwdocs] Document -fcommon default change
Gerald Pfeifer
gerald@pfeifer.com
Sat Jan 11 10:27:00 GMT 2020
On Tue, 7 Jan 2020, Wilco Dijkstra wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestions, I've reworded it as:
> + <li>GCC now defaults to <code>-fno-common</code>. As a result, global
> + variable accesses are more efficient on various targets. In C, global
> + variables with multiple tentative definitions now result in linker errors.
> + With <code>-fcommon</code> such definitions are silently merged during
> + linking.
> + </li>
Thank you, this patchset is okay (also the other parts).
(Ideally reformat for a bit smaller width since right now the patch
format, which is wider by a few columns, induces line wraps in an 80
column view, but that is optional.)
Thank you,
Gerald
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