Re: c++/8249: Objects moved from common to BSS with -fdata-sections

[Loren James Rittle <rittle@latour.rsch.comm.mot.com>]

The following reply was made to PR c++/8249; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Loren James Rittle <rittle@latour.rsch.comm.mot.com>
To: bangerth@ticam.utexas.edu
Cc: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: c++/8249: Objects moved from common to BSS with -fdata-sections
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 11:27:02 -0600 (CST)

 In article <Pine.LNX.4.44.0212201110540.18379-100000@gandalf.ticam.utexas.edu>,
 Wolfgang Bangerth<bangerth@ticam.utexas.edu> writes:
 
 >> Knowing what Linux does might help me understand more about this
 >> problem.  Linux does properly support -fdata-sections, no?  In my
 >> case, the linker is GNU ld version 2.13 20020917 (and also tested with
 >> GNU ld version 2.12.1 [FreeBSD] 2002-07-20).
 
 > I have no idea how well Linux supports -fdata-sections. To be honest, I 
 > don't even know properly what this is about, I was just going through bug 
 > reports and checked whether they apply to my box as well and if I can 
 > contribute something :-)
 
 > GNU ld version 2.11.92.0.10 20011021 (SuSE)
 
 Thanks for checking.  Your machine got the same asm output file (at
 least in the section of interest), but the linker version is
 different.  Thus, I'd now say the bug is not in the compiler but in a
 change in the linker or bug in my port's ld configuration.
 
 Perhaps, we should close it with this analysis.
 
 Regards,
 Loren