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Re: test-argp-version-etc failures on mac
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: test-argp-version-etc failures on mac |
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Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:13:38 +0200 |
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Eric Blake wrote:
> > * lib/argp-ba.c (argp_program_bug_address): Explicitly zero-initialize
> > on non-ELF systems.
>
> Cygwin is a non-ELF system, but does not need the explicit initialization.
> Is there a tighter condition we could use that would pick up just the
> MacOS situation, without penalizing PE-COFF systems?
The "penalty" is extremely small. We are talking about 4 bytes in this segment
or in that segment.
> I haven't checked whether gcc on cygwin is smart enough to put
> zero-initialized data in .bss in spite of the explicit initialization
Yes it is.
Bruno