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Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 16:22:41 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Release 1.3.10 and then merge daemon code
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On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 02:00:51PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 01:58:15PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
>>>I just tried it for a couple of things but I don't have
>>>anything working well enough right now to try a full install.  I'm
>>>still trying to track down a gcc 3.1 bug and my dll is really screwed
>>>up.
>>
>>Sorry to hear that -- but I'm glad somebody is working on cygwin+modern 
>>gcc. :-)
>
>The current problem is that gcc/gas/ld seems to be "optimizing" the code
>such that multiple static variables occupy one location.  That results
>in smaller code size but, um...

Btw, I found the problem.  Gcc exhibited some strange behavior with Cygwin's
use of __attribute__((section...))).  Adding a __attribute__((nocommon)) to
each occurrence magically rectified the problem.

cgf