static Variables with Section Attribute

[Stan Katz]

Hi all,

I have a question about using the section attribute for a variable. In
section 3.28 of Using Gcc, the manual says

"You may only use the section attribute with a fully initialized global
definition because of the way linkers work"

I understand that the linker requires that the object be defined only once
but I don't really see how this implies that the variable definition must be
both global and initialized. I am also looking for the command line argument
to enable the warning for this, it does not seem to be part of -Wall and I
can't find it in any documentation (probably because I don't know what it is
called).

TIA

Stan Katz

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