Richard Earnshaw <rearn...@arm.com> writes:
> On 06/11/12 22:05, Andrew Pinski wrote:
>> Hi,
>> The problem here is with section anchors turned on, we generate a
>> BSS rather than a local common symbol and we no longer match the
>> pattern: "_ZGVZ3foovE1x,8,8". This fixes this testcase by just adding
>> -fno-section-anchors.
>>
>
> Why is -fsection-anchors changing the choice of output section? Sure,
> section anchors are more useful when you use BSS rather than Common, but
> it shouldn't in itself be changing that choice.
It's not really changing the output section, just the assembly syntax
used to define the symbol. Local common ends up as the equivalent of:
.section .bss,...
.align M
foo:
.size N
Richard
