-fno-common

[Richard Biener]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 4:59 PM Bernhard Schommer
<bernhardschommer@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to know if the handling of the option -fno-common has
> changed between version 7.3 and 8.2 for x86. I tried it with the
> default system version of OpenSUSE and for example:
>
> const int i;
>
> is placed in the .bss section. With a newer self-compiled version 8.2
> the same variable is placed in the section .rodata. I could not find
> any information in the Changelog whether the behavior has changed and
> thus would like to know if there was any change.

I can confirm this change in behavior.  I vaguely remember changes in this
area but I'm not sure if the change was on purpose.

Richard.

> Best,
> -Bernhard