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https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D36685

James Y Knight <foom at fuhm dot net> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from James Y Knight <foom at fuhm dot net> ---
The interaction of __attribute__((weak)) and const int was recently explore=
d in
Clang in this thread:
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/weak-attribute-semantics-on-const-variables/62=
311

Strangely, it appears that Clang and GCC have opposite odd behavior current=
ly:
GCC appears to evaluate weak constants _only_ in constant evaluation (so lo=
ng
as=