Is this a bug?

[Lev Assinovsky]

The test case passed under gcc 3.3.1.
The problem was in lack of SOM weak support in gcc prior 3.3

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Lev Assinovsky
Aelita Software Corporation
O&S Core Division, Programmer
ICQ# 165072909


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexandre Oliva [mailto:aoliva@redhat.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 10:57 PM
> To: Lev Assinovsky
> Cc: Gcc-Bugs (E-mail); Gcc-Help (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: Is this a bug?
> 
> 
> On Aug 12, 2003, "Lev Assinovsky" 
> <LAssinovsky@algorithm.aelita.com> wrote:
> 
> > gcc 3.2.3, HPUX-11.00:
> 
> > t.cpp: In static member function `static const item* A::f()':
> > t.cpp:6: warning: sorry: semantics of inline function 
> static data `const item 
> >    arr[1]' are wrong (you'll wind up with multiple copies)
> > t.cpp:6: warning:   you can work around this by removing 
> the initializer
> 
> It's not as much of a bug, but rather a limitation AFAIK imposed by
> the object file of the platform you've chosen.  GCC requires weak
> symbols in order to implement this feature correctly, and 32-bit HP-UX
> object files don't support them (completely?).
> 
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