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RE: What does assembly-time constant mean?
- From: Kazu Hirata <kazu at hxi dot com>
- To: 'Neil Booth' <neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 18:18:57 -0500
- Subject: RE: What does assembly-time constant mean?
Hi Neil,
> > When I was reading the gcc internals manual, I came across a term
> > "assembly-time constant". What does this mean? Does this mean
> > something like this?
> >
> > extern const int foo;
> >
> > Could somebody give me an example?
>
> Heh, I just read the same thing today. I imagined it meant the
> address of a label, over and above an immediate constant.
Yeah, from what nonmemory_operand accepts, I think an assembly-time
constant at least includes the address of a variable.
> It would be nice if someone clarified the intent.
Yes.
Kazu Hirata