3.3 problem of -fzero-initialized-in-bss w/-ffreestanding

David O'Brien obrien@FreeBSD.org
Mon Jul 14 18:26:00 GMT 2003


GCC 3.3 now has -fzero-initialized-in-bss as the default.  That is fine
and dandy for userland programs.  But it caused a major problem for the
FreeBSD kernel when we upgraded from 3.2.2 to 3.3.1 [snapshot].

-no-zero-initialized-in-bss should be the default when -ffreestanding is
specified -- GCC should not^H^H^Hcannot make assumptions about when BSS
zeroing occurs in an -ffreestanding environment.

Can this change be made for 3.3.1 release?

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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