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From: Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: can't initialize a constant using another constant?
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:05:51 +0530
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Thanks to all those who replied. I am very sorry I did not specify the=20
compiler version etc. I should have. It's gcc version 4.1.3 20070929=20
(prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2).

Glynn Clements wrote:
> In C, "const" is only relevant to pointer targets. Adding the "const"
> modifier to a variable has no effect.

I don't understand what you mean. I just tried gcc -o foo foo.c on:

# include <stdio.h>
main () {
         const int i =3D 1 ;
         i =3D 2 ;
         printf ( "%d\n", i ) ;
}

and I got:

foo.c: In function =91main=92:
foo.c:6: error: assignment of read-only variable =91i=92

So in what sense are you saying adding const to a variable has no effec=
t?

Shriramana Sharma.
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