On Aug 12, 2003, "Lev Assinovsky" <LAssinovsky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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?). -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} CS PhD student at IC-Unicamp oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist Professional serial bug killer