Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:53:44 +0100 (MET) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | mergemem, is it really needed |
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Hi,
Upon reading the mergemem thread, some vague memory from my read-everything days came floating up... And a 'info gcc' gave me:
`-fshared-data' Requests that the data and non-`const' variables of this compilation be shared data rather than private data. The distinction makes sense only on certain operating systems, where shared data is shared between processes running the same program, while private data exists in one copy per process.
Wouldn't this give the same functionality as mergemem, at a cheaper cost???
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