attribute section in static locals

[Ian Lance Taylor]

"Paulo J. Matos" <paulo@matos-sorge.com> writes:

> The GCC manual says in
> http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.3.6/gcc/Variable-Attributes.html#index-g_t_0040code_007bsection_007d-variable-attribute-2216
>
> "You may only use the section attribute with a fully initialized
> global definition because of the way linkers work. "
>
> However, a static local seems to be ok. Should the documentation be updated?

Sure.

Note that the docs have already changed somewhat in that area, but they
still don't say that a function local static variable is OK.

Ian