Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 10:55:07 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about genassym, locore.s and 0-sized arrays(showstopper for an icc compiled kernel) Message-ID: <20030905105507.51ba3183.Alexander@Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <3F584B85.AAC3A11D@mindspring.com> References: <20030904180448.021a1b6b.Alexander@Leidinger.net> <20030904162858.GI98381@dan.emsphone.com> <20030905001411.3a9030b3.Alexander@Leidinger.net> <20030904225123.GB39916@dan.emsphone.com> <3F584B85.AAC3A11D@mindspring.com>
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On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 01:38:29 -0700
Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> wrote:
> Dan Nelson wrote:
> > I guess the correct question to be asking is "does the ELF format allow
> > 0-length symbols?"
>
> It does, according to my reading of it. They may have an issue with
> dead code removal or element aliasing. The way to find out would be
> to see what they emit for "[]"... 0 lenth, or 1?
% <icc.c
char array[];
% nm icc.o
00000001 C array
Bye,
Alexander.
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