--- Comment #9 from hans at mesoscopic dot mines dot edu 2008-06-23 18:03
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FWIW-
I ran into this "bug" too, in the same usecase as Gary. I think the current
behavior is close to useless and should be changed as outlined above.
Cheers
Hans
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--- Comment #8 from manu at gcc dot gnu dot org 2007-11-14 03:05 ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> - yes, the documentation, source code commments and -help are either
> incomplete or do not accurately describe present behavior.
Confirmed. Patches are welcome.
> - -fkepp-static-consts be
--- Additional Comments From gary at intrepid dot com 2005-06-20 23:40
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I guess that tagging the bug with a "documentation" keyword doesn't
necessarily say that the bug is being classified only as a defect in the
documentation. However, if that is the meaning of this keyword, then
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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20319
--- Additional Comments From gary at intrepid dot com 2005-03-18 16:16
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from http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-03/msg00491.html
I think that the switch name
-fkeep-static-consts might be more consistenly named if it
was given the opposite sense and named something like
-fdelete-unused-s
--- Additional Comments From gary at intrepid dot com 2005-03-04 21:54
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Here is some detail on my proposed change in behavior:
1) Change the default setting to -fno-keep-static-consts:
/* Nonzero means that we should emit static const variables
regardless of whether or not opti
--- Additional Comments From joseph at codesourcery dot com 2005-03-04
20:42 ---
Subject: Re: -fkeep-static-consts with -O asserted doesn't keep
consts
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org wrote:
> Don't belive the comments in the source. Also the --help is way out of
--- Additional Comments From pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org 2005-03-04
20:33 ---
Don't belive the comments in the source. Also the --help is way out of date.
you want to use the used
attribute like so:
static char const rcsid[]__attribute__((used)) =
"$Id: f.c,v 5.4 1993/11/09 17:40:1
--- Additional Comments From gary at intrepid dot com 2005-03-04 20:24
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"Emit variables declared @code{static const} when optimization isn't turned
on, even if the variables aren't referenced."
How odd. I should've checked the docs, but this brief explanation in the
help line made
--- Additional Comments From pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org 2005-03-04
18:29 ---
Nope, -fkeep-static-consts only control when optimization is not on:
>From the docs:
Emit variables declared @code{static const} when optimization isn't
turned
on, even if the variables aren't refer
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