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Message: [QUOTE="Ben Bacarisse, post: 3495443"] *Please* post these articles in comp.programming. I'd join in a lot more if I could do so and be topical. However, you are dead set on knocking gcc without understanding it so... <off-topic> gcc uses the GNU linker ld. ld merges the common blocks to make tab the larger of the two size regardless of the linking order. In this case, I can't see why you'd want a diagnostic[1]. When a compilation unit initialises the table (so it can't be merged) the GNU linker *does* produce a warning: /usr/bin/ld: Warning: size of symbol `tab' changed from 1024 in t1.o to 16 in t2.o </off-topic> Please post it where it belongs. [1] OK, a case can be made for a diagnostic in all such cases, but you are suggesting the gcc leads the programmer silently into a trap. [/QUOTE]