GCC build failed for native with your patch on 2003-09-05T11:02:39Z.

[Jan Hubicka]

> 
> On Saturday, Sep 6, 2003, at 12:01 US/Pacific, Jan Hubicka wrote:
> >In the case you have a testcase I can try to look into it.
> >(After all I had to deal with a tons of similar issues)
> 
> Here is the reduced testcase (I think this is a Darwin specific bug 
> meaning
> the Darwin's backend does not expect the variable to change to being a
> common symbol from a non-common, I will be looking into this, Darwin's 
> backend
> might just have to be rewritten, I already rewrote the PIC code part
> The right asm does not have ".comm __ZN5ctypeIcE2idE,1" but
>         .globl __ZN5ctypeIcE2idE
> .data
> __ZN5ctypeIcE2idE:
>         .space 1
> So it looks like unit-at-a-time is marking _ZN5ctypeIcE2idE 
> (ctype<char>::id)
> as a common symbol but it did it after Darwin's backend saw it as a 
> non-common.

This sounds really interesting.  With unit-at-a-time we should not tell
backend anything before finalizing all the flags.  Hmm...

Honza