On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 5:57 PM, Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 02/17/2016 04:39 PM, Benedek Thaler wrote: >> Is there any expert on this matter missed this message I can directly contact? > > My immediate response is "don't do that." > > More generally, you're doing something odd and quite unnecessary. Why > not simply not do the odd thing? Move the global data outside the > function? > > Andrew. In the real life use case, I have control over the macro which produces `data`. The user invokes this macro wherever s/he wants, as many times as s/he likes, with possibly different values. The stored value is going to be used by the application on the spot, and has to be looked up offline, statically; hence the custom section. Thanks, Benedek
