* Jan Kiszka: > Florian Weimer wrote: >> * Jan Kiszka: >> >>> So, is this a regression? Does it also happen with vanilla 4.1? >> >> According to the documentation, the weak attribute affects >> declarations, not definitions, and is an instruction to the linker. >> Technically, the GCC 4.1 behavior is correct. I'm not sure if it's >> desirably, though. > > Looks at least very surprising for the user - given the fact that only > empty weak functions suffer from this, that this behaviour depends on > optimisation levels, and that it was fine with earlier versions for > quite a while. It looks like a bug because other optimizations are correctly prevented. Please file a bug report: <http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html>
