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

Tue Jul 15 04:01:00 GMT 2003

Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> writes:

>> GCC 3.3 now has -fzero-initialized-in-bss as the default.  That is fine
>> and dandy for userland programs.
>
> No, this broke Emacs on SPARC/Solaris (and on other platforms I suspect). The 
> Emacs folks have already patched their CVS tree, but this option shouldn't 
> have made its way into GCC 3.3 in the first place because Emacs is supposed 
> to be part of the release criteria.

How does it break Emacs - and what's the workaround?

Andreas
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