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From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com>
To: Gianni Mariani <gianni_@uluru.mariani.ws>
Cc: gianni@mariani.ws (Gianni Mariani), gcc@gcc.gnu.org (gcc@gcc.gnu.org)
Subject: Re: const static initializers versionitis
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 08:29:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <orsnrxuxfw.fsf@guarana.lsd.ic.unicamp.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200008221512.IAA02303@uluru.mariani.ws>

On Aug 22, 2000, Gianni Mariani <gianni_@uluru.mariani.ws> wrote:

> Why were forward declarations of const arrays removed from g++
> since 2.95.2 ?

`extern' is the keyword to forward-declare data in namespace scope.

> Isn't this a gcc bug?

Nope.

> The code still compiles fine in gcc so I would have some level
> of expectation that "const"ness should not change the behaviour
> of the compiler.

const POD must be initialized.

> Is there a compiler switch that reinstates the desired behaviour ?

-fpermissive, maybe?

-- 
Alexandre Oliva   Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
Red Hat GCC Developer                  aoliva@{cygnus.com, redhat.com}
CS PhD student at IC-Unicamp        oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
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  reply	other threads:[~2000-08-22  8:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-08-18  8:43 Gianni Mariani
2000-08-22  8:12 ` Gianni Mariani
2000-08-22  8:29   ` Alexandre Oliva [this message]
2000-08-22  9:04     ` Gianni Mariani
2000-08-22  9:27       ` Alexandre Oliva
2000-08-22 10:59         ` Gianni Mariani
2000-08-23  2:59           ` Alexandre Oliva
2000-08-23  8:33             ` Gianni Mariani
2000-08-23  9:39               ` Alexandre Oliva
2000-08-23 10:12                 ` Gianni Mariani

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