bug on mainline

Richard Henderson rth@twiddle.net
Sun Mar 3 00:33:00 GMT 2002


On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 10:54:39PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> > With current GCC 3.1 and current binutils I get this error when
> > compiling glibc CVS on i686-linux:
> > 
> > /tmp/ccDWlLRk.s: Assembler messages:
> > /tmp/ccDWlLRk.s:7722: Error: symbol `daylight' can not be both
> > weak and common
[...]
> I've seen in the gcc ChangeLogs this horrible mistake called
> -fno-zero-initialized-in-bss.  Are you using a compiler with this?

I don't think it's a mistake in theory.

But the patch was supposed to generate proper bss symbols,
not common symbols.  Poke Kaveh for a start; I'll look at
it if he doesn't take care of it.


r~



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