https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=84562
--- Comment #7 from Jan Nordholz <jnordholz at sect dot tu-berlin.de> --- (In reply to Richard Biener from comment #5) > Btw, the behavior is the way you describe since forever. That GCC looks at > the constant initializer for the array is just a direct consequence of it > looking at the constant initializer of the scalar. And my point is that the compiler shouldn't look at the initializer of weak objects in the first place. :) How long this behaviour already exists or what the competition is doing doesn't really change my feeling that this is the Wrong Thing To Do. But it's your bugtracker, I won't argue if you insist that this should be flagged as invalid. If I (or somebody else who happens to find this bug report) would come up with a patch to fix this inconsistency (as Alexander has showcased even more concisely in comment #3), would this be considered by the project?