On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 03:47:16PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> > So we can avoid this if we invent a __constinitdata tag that uses
> > a new section?
>
> That would do.
>
> > I ask mainly to understand this error - not that I am that found
> > of the idea.
>
> Somebody wants to mix up read-only and read/write data in the same
> section and GCC quite legitimately complains about it. You cannot have
> both at a time.
My interpretation is that it would be perfectly ok for a C compiler to
do minimal handling of const by only throwing errors for attempted
assignments to const objects but otherwise treating them as if they
were non-const, that is for example putting them into an r/w section.
Ralf
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