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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: Please pull powerpc.git 'merge' branch
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 22:41:19 +0200
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>>> I wrote a sparse extension that warns if an initializer tries to  
>>> initialize
>>> the same entry multiple times.
>>
>>    Ugh, I expected the C compiler to catch this... :-/
>
> Yeah, me too.

Long ago, GCC used to catch this (with an error).  C99 however
requires the overwriting behaviour.  Having a warning would be
nice though; this is http://gcc.gnu.org/PR24010 .


Segher