gcc iussue or ... ?

[Alexander Kabaev]

On Sat, 12 Apr 2003 18:26:36 -0700
"David O'Brien" <obrien at freebsd.org> wrote:

> I'm not sure we should change FreeBSD to do something that purposfully
> produces wrong semantics.  From your test it sounds like either GCC
> 3.3 or Binutils 2.13.2.1 changes things for us.  I haven't updated
> FreeBSD to 2.13.2.1 as the changes from 2.13.2 don't really change any
> of the FreeBSD architectures.  The behavior change is probably due to
> improved g++ utilization of ELF features, or your FreeBSD-related bug
> fixes in 3.3.
>

I think there is a slight confusion here. It is -fconserve-space flag
what introduces wrong semantics, not the addition of missing definition.
-fconserve-space marks all uninitialized static variables as 'common'
which can obviously lead to unwanted namespace collisions.

-- 
Alexander Kabaev