Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> writes:
Note, if for whatever reason one wants the common behavior e.g. on a
few
selected variables, one can add __attribute__((__common__)) to those
variables to override the default, it doesn't have to be just -fcommon
that changes the behavior of all non-automatic variables without
initializers.
Good point. Perhaps that's worth mentioning in the porting notes.
The library is from Intel, so it has to support a compiler with mythical
powers, but it already conditionalizes assorted __attribute__s, as you'd
expect.