use of const keyword

Yu Sheng Oh humbleoh@gmail.com
Sun Dec 7 14:55:00 GMT 2014


Please refer http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3025050/error-initializer-element-is-not-constant-when-trying-to-initialize-variable-w

"All the expressions in an initializer for an object that has static
storage duration shall be constant expressions or string literals."

On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 10:50 PM, Yu Sheng Oh <humbleoh@gmail.com> wrote:
> const int is not a constant in c, although it is in c++.
> to initialize a const int, you have to use literal values.
>
> On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 10:43 PM, bostjanv <bostjanv@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I am verifying a simple fact concerning the use of the const keyword.
>>
>> I wrote the following simple program
>>
>>
>> ============================
>>
>> const int a=10;
>> const int b=a;
>>
>> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
>> }
>> ============================
>>
>> I tried it out with gcc, version 4.7.2 on Debian 7, and the result was the
>> following:
>>
>> ============================
>> bostjan@wwpecker-5-deb:~/workspace/OB2/src$ cc   -c -o test.o test.c
>> test.c:3:1: error: initializer element is not constant
>> b
>> ============================
>>
>> QUESTION: Is there a way to initialize a const to the value of another
>> const?
>> Regards,
>> bostjanv
>>
>>
>>
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