Aliases ...

[Andreas Schwab]

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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