From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12124 invoked by alias); 30 Apr 2004 20:00:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 12081 invoked from network); 30 Apr 2004 19:59:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu) (128.122.140.213) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 30 Apr 2004 19:59:59 -0000 Received: by vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (4.1/1.34) id AA05451; Fri, 30 Apr 04 16:00:28 EDT Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 21:46:00 -0000 From: kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) Message-Id: <10404302000.AA05451@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> To: ian@wasabisystems.com Subject: Re: -fzero-initialized-in-bss again Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2004-04/txt/msg01473.txt.bz2 Whether something like -fzero-initialized-in-bss is correct really depends on language rules. It sounds like the Ada compiler should turn it off by default. Or else the Ada compiler should default to -fno-common; that is also a language rules issue. I think Eric was a bit misleading here. Although the problem occured with an Ada program, it is not language-specific and can occur in any language.