| From: | Patrick Roberts |
| Date: | 30 Aug 2000 at 01:24:31 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: vpcc complaints |
Rudi-
That was it... I'd commented out the code that used it.
THANKS!
:)
Pat
Rudi Chiarito wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 03:40:21PM -0700, artix wrote:
> > mdata testi = {1, 2, idata};
> >
> > int main( int argc,char **argv) {
> > /* ... */
> > }
>
> You define testi, but never use it (not even in the code you omitted,
> right?). The VP linker notices that and optimises testi away. Still
> there's an implicit reference to testi in the code that initialises
> global data, which vpld forgets to omit.
>
> The solution is easy and there are two choices:
>
> a) remove testi, as you don't use it anyway
> b) use testi, e.g. by adding "testi.j11=2". This prevents the structure
> from being discarded.
>
> This is already taken care of in newer releases of the linker, which do
> the right thing, i.e. remove testi and the reference to it in the
> initialisation code.
>
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