gcc: why is "abcdef"[3] not a constant (error: initializer element is not constant)

[Toon Moene]

On 05/08/2015 03:34 PM, m-h-l wrote:

> Funny thing is that g++, ArmC and ICC do not have a problem with "abcdef"[3]
> as an initializer.

Neither does Fortran:

toon@moene:~/src$ cat g.f
       CHARACTER :: A = "12345"(3:3)
       PRINT *,A
       END

toon@moene:~/src$ gfortran g.f
toon@moene:~/src$ ./a.out
  3


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