Re: 2.4.7pre8aa1

From: Jeff Dike (jdike@karaya.com)
Date: Thu Jul 19 2001 - 19:42:50 EST


andrea@suse.de said:
> works fine thanks! Of course I agree with rmk it would be better not
> to disable -fno-common but this is ok for now ;)

Yeah, it's temporary. rmk's idea was to use the link script to toss errno.o
out of the final binary.

> (after all we would
> catch any potential important name collision during the compiles of
> the other targets)

Agreed. -fno-common is definitely good. The only conflict is errno, but
when Arjan first started playing with -fno-common, he found a couple of UML
bugs.

                                Jeff

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