Bug#133574: gcc: gcc generates incorrect executables if huge static arrays are used
Hi!
> > In its previous incarnation, bug was hidden by going to new gcc
> > version... But it looks like it only raised a bar a bit.
>
> This is really a bug in your code; you are exceeding a compiler limit,
> thus the code behaves undefined. There is a bug in the compiler also:
> the compiler should diagnose that you exceed the limit, but there is
Yes, compiler should be fixed to give link error.
> no reasonable way you could expect this code to work on the
> microprocessor you are using (and with the operating system you are
> using).
No problem with that. (Actually, it is not *totally*
unreasonable. Array is slighlty bigger than 1.2GB if I read it
correctly. We should have enough address space to make it fit; maybe
with modified ld.so or something like that.)
Pavel
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