Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 28 Nov 2000 17:09:48 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0" | From | Andreas Schwab <> |
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Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> writes:
|> On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:55:06AM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: |> > Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> writes: |> > |> > |> On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: |> > |> |> > |> > On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:10:33PM +0900, kumon@flab.fujitsu.co.jp wrote: |> > |> > > If you have two files: |> > |> > > test1.c: |> > |> > > int a,b,c; |> > |> > > |> > |> > > test2.c: |> > |> > > int a,c; |> > |> > > |> > |> > > Which is _stronger_? |> > |> > |> > |> > Those won't link together as they aren't declared static. |> > |> |> > |> Try it. They _will_ link together. |> > |> > Not if you compile with -fno-common, which should actually be the default |> > some day, IMHO. |> |> I thought -fno-common was the default behaviour indeed, and I agree it should |> become the default since current behaviour can lead to sublte bugs. (better I |> discovered this gcc "extension" this way than after some day of debugging :)
This is not really a gcc extension, but long Unix tradition. If you make -fno-common the default then many programs will not build any more, including the Linux kernel. :-)
Andreas.
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