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From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
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On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 01:07:50PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
> does cause a section conflict, egcs 1.1.2.
> 
> Interestingly enough, if var[12] are together, without the intervening
> text, then gcc does not flag an error, instead it puts both variables
> in section .data.init and marks it as read only.  This looks like a bug
> in gcc.

Fixed in compilers newer than 2 years old.


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