From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3672 invoked by alias); 15 Apr 2010 12:43:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 3661 invoked by uid 22791); 15 Apr 2010 12:43:19 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ka.mail.enyo.de (HELO ka.mail.enyo.de) (87.106.162.201) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:43:14 +0000 Received: from [172.17.135.4] (helo=deneb.enyo.de) by ka.mail.enyo.de with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) id 1O2OPW-0001n4-LO; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:43:10 +0200 Received: from fw by deneb.enyo.de with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1O2OPW-0006TC-EN; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:43:10 +0200 From: Florian Weimer To: Eric Botcazou Cc: Duncan Sands , gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: [Ada] Delete bogus use of flag_zero_initialized_in_bss References: <4B9F3DA9.5020204@free.fr> <201003162306.29494.ebotcazou@adacore.com> <4BA230DB.8060002@free.fr> <201003181605.16643.ebotcazou@adacore.com> Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:10:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <201003181605.16643.ebotcazou@adacore.com> (Eric Botcazou's message of "Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:05:16 +0100") Message-ID: <87hbnchoo1.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2010-04/txt/msg00883.txt.bz2 * Eric Botcazou: >> if I understand right you agree that clearing this flag is pointless on >> linux (and probably many other) systems, but that it is simpler to clear >> it everywhere rather than only on those systems that need it? > > Even on Linux you may need to clear it if you have a pure Ada program and a > custom linker script. Are you sure? Where would that non-zero data come from?