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

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Tue Jul 15 09:54:00 GMT 2003


Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> writes:

|> > I disagree that it should never have gotten into GCC 3.3; emacs has no
|> > right to make random assumptions about memory layout, and should expect
|> > to break regularly with new versions of GCC as long as it has such
|> > assumptions.
|> 
|> I would not disagree with you disagreeing, had we not written this:
|> http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.3/criteria.html

The portability of Emacs ends at the point where undump is called.

Andreas.

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