[llvm-dev] why do undefined globals end up in .data instead of .bss?

[Tobias Edler von Koch via llvm-dev]

On 04/25/2017 03:48 PM, Andrew Kelley wrote:
>
>     Can you elaborate a little on why you think "undef" is the correct
>     value? Inside LLVM, undef essentially means "any value we choose".
>     The language reference has a section on this. It would be entirely
>     correct if we emitted all 1s instead of all 0s for undef. If you
>     really want it to be .bss, zeroinitializer seems to be the better
>     choice.
>
>
> Yes, any value would be semantically correct. What I am communicating 
> to LLVM is "any value will be fine here" which means that LLVM can do 
> whatever it wants here to achieve better performance, compile time 
> speed, smaller object size, or another goal that I have not thought 
> of. And in this email thread I am suggesting that LLVM should probably 
> choose the smaller object size goal in this situation, choose 0 for 
> the value, and put it in .bss.

Ah ok, in that case it makes sense. As Eli said, feel free to submit a 
patch.

Thanks,
Tobias

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