Is this a bug?

[Alexandre Oliva]

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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