On Mar 30, 2012, at 12:44 PM, Chandler Carruth wrote:
> These patches cause us to miscompile and/or reject code with static
> function-local variables in an extern-C context. Previously, we were
> papering over this as long as the variables are within the same
> translation unit, and had not seen any failures in the wild. We still
> need a proper fix, which involves mangling static locals inside of an
> extern-C block (as GCC already does), but this patch causes pretty
> widespread regressions. Firefox, and many other applications no longer
> build.

It's worse than that; apparently our static-local mangling is not functional
at all.  I agree that this needs to be reverted;  I will try to fix my specific
bug in a more minimal way until there is time to implement static-local
mangling correctly.

John.
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