g++ does not give an error while it should

[Martin v. Loewis]

> The following was reported as a bug through the Debian bugtracking system
> ( http://www.debian.org/ ). Please Cc: 28417@bugs.debian.org on on-topic
> replies.

I don't know whether you've closed this meanwhile: gcc 2.95 19990523
reports

a.cc:34: `const' can only be specified for objects and functions

so it appears that the bug is fixed.

Regards,
Martin