init_priority

[Phil Edwards]

On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 02:11:08PM -0800, Joe Buck wrote:
> 
> > If I'm missing something obvious, someone please tell me.  What I have
> > in mind is something like this patch (the #if conditionals are just
> > placeholders):
> 
> Please don't warn about redundant -f options.
> 
> *Many* of the -f options are on by default, and no message is given to
> the user if they include them.  This is a good thing, in general, because
> the default value of -f switches is sometimes flipped by new versions
> of the compiler.

I agree with you; that isn't exactly the case here.


> Warning that -finit-priority won't work is a good thing, though.

Right; it isn't that -finit-priority is "redundant"; it's that it has
zero effect.  Same goes for -fno-init-priority; you can't turn it off.
They're altogether ignored.

In addition to documenting the effects of the attribute itself, I'd like to
remove the mention of the -f options from the manual, since the description
has become false.


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