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From: Ruediger Helsch <rh@unifix.de>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
Cc: 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: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 03:06:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960814114647.25223A-100000@anna.unifix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199608140402.AAA26654@psilocin.gnu.ai.mit.edu>

On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Richard Stallman wrote:

> 	    #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.

To my best knowledge it never did, as optind is normally initialized
(e.g. to 1) and not a common but a data definition, so that all
commons with this name are resolved against the definition in  the
library.

Ruediger Helsch <rh@unifix.de>


  reply	other threads:[~1996-08-14  3:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-08-09  2:46 David S. Miller
1996-08-09  5:24 ` David S. Miller
1996-08-09  9:01   ` Ian Lance Taylor
1996-08-09  8:30 ` Ian Lance Taylor
1996-08-09 13:13   ` Ulrich Drepper
1996-08-09 15:30     ` Ian Lance Taylor
1996-08-10 17:37       ` Richard Stallman
1996-08-10 19:41         ` Ian Lance Taylor
1996-08-10 23:26           ` Jim Wilson
1996-08-11  1:44           ` Richard Stallman
1996-08-13 10:58           ` Ruediger Helsch
1996-08-13 13:36             ` Jim Wilson
1996-08-13 16:06               ` Ruediger Helsch
1996-08-13 19:04                 ` Jim Wilson
1996-08-13 21:02                   ` Richard Stallman
1996-08-14  3:06                     ` Ruediger Helsch [this message]
1996-08-14 23:44                       ` Richard Stallman
1996-08-14  0:18                 ` Nick Ing-Simmons
1996-08-14  3:06                   ` Ruediger Helsch
1996-08-15 11:24                   ` H.J. Lu
1996-08-13  9:06 ` Ruediger Helsch
1996-08-13 10:58   ` Richard Stallman
1996-08-13 13:36     ` Ruediger Helsch
1996-08-13 13:36       ` Richard Stallman
1996-08-13 14:40       ` H.J. Lu
1996-08-13 16:06       ` Ulrich Drepper
1996-08-13 16:06         ` Joe Buck
1996-08-13 17:02         ` Rohan LENARD

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