https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=84562
--- Comment #8 from rguenther at suse dot de <rguenther at suse dot de> --- On February 28, 2018 6:44:43 PM GMT+01:00, "jnordholz at sect dot tu-berlin.de" <gcc-bugzi...@gcc.gnu.org> wrote: >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? I guess yes.
