What does assembly-time constant mean?

[Neil Booth]

Kazu Hirata wrote:-

> Hi,
> 
> 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.

It would be nice if someone clarified the intent.

Neil.