section type conflict in gcc xtensa

["Hari Narasimhan H.N" <hari dot narasimhanhn at gmail dot com>]

Dear Sir,

We are getting the following error "section type conflict" with xtensa
gcc when a const and non const global variable is placed in the same
section?

I am using a bare metal cross gcc toolchain for Xtensa architecture
built as per instructions in
http://wiki.linux-xtensa.org/index.php/Crosstool-NG. We are using a
custom Xtensa processor in our firmware.

For example consider the code below

__attribute__((section(".dram0.data"))) int x;
__attribute__((section(".dram0.data"))) const int y = 10;

main()
{

}

This throws up an error during compilation

test3.c:2:51: error: y causes a section type conflict with x
 __attribute__((section(".dram0.data"))) const int y = 10;
                                                   ^
test3.c:1:45: note: âxâ was declared here
 __attribute__((section(".dram0.data"))) int x;

Removing the const attribute for y will remove this error.

We built our firmware by removing const attributes.Firmware built
using xcc works fine but the same code built using gcc works partly


Thanks and Regards
Hari