Le 09/03/2020 à 14:46, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev a écrit :
> Le 09/03/2020 à 13:43, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev a écrit :
>> On 3/8/20 10:49 PM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote:
>>> GCC 10 will enable -fno-common by default.  It would break some "legacy"
>>> (actually buggy IMO) code.  I found some cases in the book with GCC 9 and 
>>> -fno-
>>> common explicitly enabled.
>>>
>>> Patches uploaded to
>>> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~xry111/fno-common-patches/.
>>> I hope the upstream can fix these cases before GCC 10 (for SDL2, xorg-server
>>> and
>>> pipewire the fix is already commited).  But if they don't we can grab these
>>> patches as needed.
>>
>> Thanks for that.  One question though.  When I go to
>> https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Code-Gen-Options.html is says
>>
>> "The default is -fno-common, which specifies that the compiler places
>> uninitialized global variables in the BSS section of the object file. This
>> inhibits the merging of tentative definitions by the linker so you get a
>> multiple-definition error if the same variable is accidentally defined in 
>> more
>> than one compilation unit."
>>
>> I would read the above to indicate that -fno-common is default for gcc9 also.
>>
>> Comments?
>>
> 
> In the info file for gcc-9.2.0:
> 
>      Unix C compilers have traditionally allocated storage for
>      uninitialized global variables in a common block.  This allows the
>      linker to resolve all tentative definitions of the same variable in
>      different compilation units to the same object, or to a
>      non-tentative definition.  This is the behavior specified by
>      '-fcommon', and is the default for GCC on most targets.  On the
>      other hand, this behavior is not required by ISO C, and on some
>      targets may carry a speed or code size penalty on variable
>      references.
> 
> So I think the internet version is for GCC 10.


The right address for internet doc for 9.2.0 is
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-9.2.0/gcc/

Pierre
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