On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 03:47:10PM +0000, Wilco Dijkstra wrote: > GCC currently defaults to -fcommon. As discussed in the PR, this is an > ancient > C feature which is not conforming with the latest C standards. On many > targets > this means global variable accesses have a codesize and performance penalty. > This applies to C code only, C++ code is not affected by -fcommon. It is > about > time to change the default.
Does this actually work on all older OSes (etc.) we support? Only one way to find out, of course :-) Segher
