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Re: Aliases ...

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
To: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>, Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>,Glibc hackers <libc-hacker at sources dot redhat dot com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 21:23:25 +0100
Subject: Re: Aliases ...
References: <200501141930.j0EJUF90016732@magilla.sf.frob.com>

Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> writes:

>> If we need to, we can rearrange things such that aliases are 
>> delayed until the real end of the translation unit, but...
>
> This has always worked before, and initializing is ugly when you really
> want bss symbols.

Although gcc should be able to notice that the initializer is all-zeroes
and place the variable in bss anyway.

Andreas.

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