Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Yes, I'm fairly sure that is no longer correct. gcc is now smart > > enough to not treat a variable with a section attribute as a common > > variable. > > Do you know when this happened ? Before GCC 3.2 ? I don't know when it happened, no. > > I think the documentation is simply wrong. > > It's probably high time to fix it up. Yep. Ian