An Ansi-C question or... Is egcs/gcc Ansi compliant?

[esoft at arrakis dot es (Enrique I.R.)]

Hi.

Just playing with const:

const int i=0;
   i++;
   printf("%i\n",i);

You get a warning only (increment of read-only variable) and then both compiles
(egcs&gcc) and 'i' is modified at runtime. I was perplexed and checked this with
other compilers (OSF's, vc++, bcb) and couldn't even compile this.

Why ignore egcs/gcc the const keyword such way?
Is there anyway to get a real const with egcs?

PS: I don't know this message is really on-topic here. If you know of a mailing
list this could fit better, please tell me.

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