On 10/25/19 9:47 AM, 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.
> 
> OK for commit?
> 
> ChangeLog
> 2019-10-25  Wilco Dijkstra  <wdijk...@arm.com>
> 
>       PR85678
>       * common.opt (fcommon): Change init to 1.
> 
> doc/
>       * invoke.texi (-fcommon): Update documentation.
Has this been bootstrapped and regression tested?

jeff

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