mutable members in global const objects
Jamie Lokier
egcs@tantalophile.demon.co.uk
Mon Aug 3 16:38:00 GMT 1998
I wrote:
> I produced a patch to deal with the bug (mutable global objects in read
> only data section), 2.5 years ago. I don't why it never made it in.
> Maybe I never submitted it :-) Probably something to do with GCC 2.8
> taking forever.
>
> It also fixes a bug -- you're right about the optimiser needing to know
> about mutable. Otherwise it thinks some values are fixed when they're
> not, and generates the wrong code. At least, GCC 2.7.2.x did.
I just checked, EGCS 1.0.2 has both bugs.
-- Jamie
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