Commit ee573dca by Harald van Dijk Committed by Joseph Myers

doc: Remove claim about ISO C

The patch to make -fcommon the default introduces a bogus claim into
the GCC documentation.

-fcommon was claimed to be incompatible with ISO C for preventing
duplicate definitions from being diagnosed.  It does, but as that
elicits undefined behaviour (the requirement that there shall be no
more than one external definition is not a constraint), ISO C does not
require any diagnostic for it.  In the absence of any other rule this
would violate, both -fcommon and -fno-common are fully compatible with
all versions of ISO C.

2019-11-21  Harald van Dijk  <harald@gigawatt.nl>

	* doc/invoke.texi (-fcommon): Remove claim about ISO C.

From-SVN: r278604
parent 6c80b1b5
2019-11-21 Harald van Dijk <harald@gigawatt.nl>
* doc/invoke.texi (-fcommon): Remove claim about ISO C.
2019-11-21 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> 2019-11-21 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
* gimplify.c (expand_FALLTHROUGH_r, expand_FALLTHROUGH): Use * gimplify.c (expand_FALLTHROUGH_r, expand_FALLTHROUGH): Use
...@@ -14141,9 +14141,9 @@ than one compilation unit. ...@@ -14141,9 +14141,9 @@ than one compilation unit.
The @option{-fcommon} places uninitialized global variables in a common block. The @option{-fcommon} places uninitialized global variables in a common block.
This allows the linker to resolve all tentative definitions of the same variable This allows the linker to resolve all tentative definitions of the same variable
in different compilation units to the same object, or to a non-tentative in different compilation units to the same object, or to a non-tentative
definition. This behavior does not conform to ISO C, is inconsistent with C++, definition. This behavior is inconsistent with C++, and on many targets implies
and on many targets implies a speed and code size penalty on global variable a speed and code size penalty on global variable references. It is mainly
references. It is mainly useful to enable legacy code to link without errors. useful to enable legacy code to link without errors.
@item -fno-ident @item -fno-ident
@opindex fno-ident @opindex fno-ident
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