boehm-gc .comm problem

Tue Jun 5 10:06:00 GMT 2001

On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Tony Kimball wrote:
> With a cygwin target, linux host, win32 threads, building boehm-gc,
> allchblk.c, I get stuff like this:
>> 	.comm	_A, 16	 # 4
> 	.comm	_A, 32	 # 24
> 	.comm	_A, 16	 # 4

Can you find out where this is coming from? I don't see it in my Cygwin
build (using 2.95.3) nor do I have anything recent to try. Also there is
no symbol "A" defined in allchblk.c.
Just out of curiousity, does removing -fexceptions from your
configure.host have any effect on this?
Jeff