home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!das-news.harvard.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!rr2b+
- From: rr2b+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert Andrew Ryan)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: static data no in the symbol table?
- Message-ID: <MfHBe9S00WoiBHfExe@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 15:36:09 GMT
- Article-I.D.: andrew.MfHBe9S00WoiBHfExe
- References: <sfGpsXC00WoiFTzn8g@andrew.cmu.edu>
- <19930107.062513.949@almaden.ibm.com>
- Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
- Lines: 18
- In-Reply-To: <19930107.062513.949@almaden.ibm.com>
-
- Excerpts from netnews.comp.unix.aix: 7-Jan-93 Re: static data no in the
- s.. Matthew T. Russotto@vnet (750)
-
-
- > In <sfGpsXC00WoiFTzn8g@andrew.cmu.edu> Robert Andrew Ryan writes:
- > >It appears that under some circumstances xlc fails to output symbols for
- > >static data. For example, compiling:
-
- Apparently the behavior I was relying on is less common than I believed.
- The OS supplied compilers on a decstation, a sparc, and an IBM RT
- include symbols for the static data symbols. The OS supplied compilers
- with AIX, and HP-UX don't, nor does gcc (at least on a decstation.)
-
- Moral.... Never try to do anything not covered by a standard :-(
-
- Thanks for the info,
-
- -Rob
-