From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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
Message-id: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960814114647.25223A-100000@anna.unifix.de>
References: <199608140402.AAA26654@psilocin.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
X-SW-Source: 1996/msg00099.html

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>