Re: global vars and symbol visibility for mips32/elf

[hjl@innovix.com (H.J. Lu)]

> 
> Ruediger Helsch <rh@unifix.de> writes:
> >But the standard allows such behaviour only if no strictly 
> >standard-conforming program is broken by the extension.  The following
> >program is strictly conforming and should continue to run:
> >
> >	#include <assert.h>
> >	int optind[30000], optarg[30000];
> >
> >	main()
> >	{
> >		int i;
> >		for (i = 0; i < 30000; i++) {
> >			optind[i] = 1;
> >			optarg[i] = 2;
> >		}
> >
> >		for (i = 0; i < 30000; i++) {
> >			assert(optind[i] == 1);
> >			assert(optarg[i] == 2);
> >		}
> >		return 0;
> >	}
> >
> >Try this to see whether your compiler conforms to the C standard!
> >
> FWIW - gcc-2.7.2 (using /usr/ccs/bin/ld) , Solaris 2.5 
> 
> gcc     x.c   -o x
> ld: warning: symbol `optind' has differing sizes:
> 	(file /var/tmp/cca006vl1.o value=0x1d4c0; file /usr/lib/libc.so value=0x4);
> 	/usr/lib/libc.so definition taken
> ld: warning: symbol `optarg' has differing sizes:
> 	(file /var/tmp/cca006vl1.o value=0x1d4c0; file /usr/lib/libc.so value=0x4);
> 	/usr/lib/libc.so definition taken
> pluto 5% x
> Segmentation Fault (core dumped)
> 
> Identical results with SunPro cc ...
> 
> 

On Linux, I got

# gcc foo.c
usr/i486-linux/bin/ld: Warning: size of symbol `optarg' changed from 120000 to 4 in /usr/lib/libc.so
/usr/i486-linux/bin/ld: Warning: size of symbol `optind' changed from 120000 to 4 in /usr/lib/libc.so 
# a.out
zsh: 19888 segmentation fault  ./a.out


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