From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
To: wilson@cygnus.com
Cc: rh@unifix.de, wilson@cygnus.com, ian@cygnus.com, drepper@cygnus.com, dm@sgi.com, gcc2@cygnus.com, gas2@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: global vars and symbol visibility for mips32/elf
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 21:02:00 -0000
Message-id: <199608140402.AAA26654@psilocin.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
References: <199608140204.TAA12591@cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 1996/msg00097.html

	    #include <assert.h>
	    int optind[30000], optarg[30000];
	    ...


If the problem here is that a definition from the library overrides
these implicit definitions, it can be fixed in ld.  In the old days,
ld on a.out files got this right.  It needs to use the maximum size
specified by any definition.

Making -fno-common the default is unacceptable because it causes
trouble for too many programs.  But fixing ld won't cause any other
problems.  So that is the right fix.