Aliases ...

[Andreas Jaeger]

Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> writes:

> On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 08:19:16AM +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>> Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> writes:
>> 
>> > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 11:30:15AM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
>> >> > 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.
>> >
>> > That's a GCC4 bug that needs to be fixed there IMHO.
>> 
>> Look at the email and bugreport that started this thread - RTH says
>> it's not a bug...
>
> That was talking about:
> int errno;
> extern  int __libc_errno __attribute__ ((alias ("errno")));
>
> where I have no problems with gcc warning about it (although the
> warning could warn instead about alias to common symbol).
>
> But GCC warns even for:
> int errno __attribute__((nocommon));
> extern  int __libc_errno __attribute__ ((alias ("errno")));
>
> and that is IMHO a bug.

Now I understood you.

Agreed - will you file a bugreport?

thanks,
Andreas
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