libstdc++/16

[Benjamin Kosnik]

The following reply was made to PR libstdc++/16; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz@cygnus.com>
To: "Gibbons, Chad" <Chad_Gibbons@bmc.com>
Cc: libstdc++-gnats@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: RE: libstdc++/16
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 12:57:48 -0800 (PST)

 I guess you have not convinced me that it is a bug, unless I can reproduce
 it. Furthermore, I believe keeping that initializer in the header is
 necessary to conform to c++ static initializer rules. 
 
 I have, however, run across some weird solaris initializer problems when I
 was fixing other parts of the library. First off, you need to use GNU ld.
 Second, it looks like g++ on solaris is putting stuff into .bss instead of
 .data:
 
 http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-bugs/2000-03/msg00274.html
 
 Unfortunately, you'll need to come up with a testcase before this can go
 much further.
 
 -benjamin
 
 
 > A quick look at today's CVS archives shows the code with the bug hasn't been
 > modified.
 > 
 > The problem only manifests itself in very large projects, so it's difficult
 > to reproduce. I have a patch available, but I don't think anyone was
 > comfortable with the change unless there is a small test case to reproduce
 > it.