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

[Kai Henningsen]

schwab@suse.de (Andreas Schwab)  wrote on 15.07.03 in <jesmp7x31l.fsf@sykes.suse.de>:

> "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu> writes:
>
> |> OTOH, I'm not unbiased WRT this optmization, and I can certainly see
> |> that it is important for GCC to continue to be able to compile older
> |> releases of emacs.
>
> IMHO telling people to add -fno-zero-initialized-in-bss is an acceptable
> workaround.  There already have been other toolchain changes (eg. in the
> linker) that broke Emacs' undump function with a similar resolution for
> older releases.

This suggests it would be wise to clearly define an interface for  
undumping infrastructure ...

MfG Kai