From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16714 invoked by alias); 1 May 2004 08:20:17 -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 16700 invoked from network); 1 May 2004 08:20:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.libertysurf.net) (213.36.80.91) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 1 May 2004 08:20:11 -0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (213.36.54.94) by mail.libertysurf.net (6.5.036) id 40912ADC003703DC; Sat, 1 May 2004 10:16:14 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Eric Botcazou To: kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) Subject: Re: -fzero-initialized-in-bss again Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 08:20:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 Cc: rth@redhat.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org References: <10404302228.AA06573@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> In-Reply-To: <10404302228.AA06573@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200405011018.16085.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> X-SW-Source: 2004-05/txt/msg00004.txt.bz2 > The intent is to be compatible with C and do the same thing the C front > end would do with a decl in the same situation. I find the the change in > the C front end in this regard between 2.8.1 and the present confusing. If that's the only intent, let's follow Geoff's suggestion and simply delete the line from ada/utils.c (or at least make -fno-common the default). AFAIK the problem .common is aimed at solving in C doesn't exist in Ada. -- Eric Botcazou