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Subject: Re: C++ static integer class constants...
From: John Love-Jensen <eljay@adobe.com>
To: John Ratliff <webmaster@technoplaza.net>,
        MSX to GCC <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
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Hi John,

To get the behavior you want without having to define the static class
constant in some translation unit, use an anonymous enum:

class foo {
public:
  enum { X = 5, Y = 10, Z = 15 };
};

>Is this correct behavior?

I believe your example demonstrates the correct behavior.

In that *IF* you specify the value of a static const int in the declaration,
that both you *MUST* define the static const int in one-and-only-one
translation unit, and you *MUST NOT* specify the initialization value in
that definition.

HTH,
--Eljay