On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 4:59 PM Bernhard Schommer <bernhardschom...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to know if the handling of the option -fno-common has > changed between version 7.3 and 8.2 for x86. I tried it with the > default system version of OpenSUSE and for example: > > const int i; > > is placed in the .bss section. With a newer self-compiled version 8.2 > the same variable is placed in the section .rodata. I could not find > any information in the Changelog whether the behavior has changed and > thus would like to know if there was any change.
I can confirm this change in behavior. I vaguely remember changes in this area but I'm not sure if the change was on purpose. Richard. > Best, > -Bernhard
