On 3/9/20 8:48 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote:
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/
OK, but it's curious to me that the generic web page is for an
unreleased gcc-10.
-- Bruce
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