"const" globals are being handled as "static const" globals?

[Brad M. Garcia]

On Thu, 14 May 1998, Brad M. Garcia wrote:

> On Thu, 14 May 1998, Manfred Hollstein wrote:
> 
> > egcs is correct in doing it this way. The C++ standard is different
> > from ANSI-C with regard to const's. If you want your const to get
> > extern linkage, you need to define it as "extern":
> 
> In that case, it is still a bug, because egcs does the same thing
> when I compile it as C instead of C++.

I take that back.
(forgot to rename the file as a.c instead of a.cc).

Brad Garcia
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