-fzero-initialized-in-bss again

Eric Botcazou ebotcazou@act-europe.fr
Sat May 1 16:18:00 GMT 2004


> I have non clue what a "common variable" might mean.

In Ada?  Then that could simply mean that Ada doesn't need them.  We could 
then put every uninitialized variable in .bss unconditionally.

> What we are discussing is what object file section each variable
> should go into.  And what I'm saying is that this shouldn't depend on
> whether a variable was written in C or Ada: it should only be a function
> of language-independent attributes.

Weird.  I was under the impression that this would depend upon the semantics 
of the language.

-- 
Eric Botcazou



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