On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 03:47:16PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > So we can avoid this if we invent a __constinitdata tag that uses > > a new section? > > That would do. > > > I ask mainly to understand this error - not that I am that found > > of the idea. > > Somebody wants to mix up read-only and read/write data in the same > section and GCC quite legitimately complains about it. You cannot have > both at a time. My interpretation is that it would be perfectly ok for a C compiler to do minimal handling of const by only throwing errors for attempted assignments to const objects but otherwise treating them as if they were non-const, that is for example putting them into an r/w section. Ralf
