What does assembly-time constant mean?

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jan 24, 2002, Kazu Hirata <kazu@hxi.com> wrote:

> When I was reading the gcc internals manual, I came across a term
> "assembly-time constant".  What does this mean?

It's a literal number or say a difference between two symbols whose
offset can be computed by the assembler.  Compare with a link-time
constant, for example, a symbol name, whose address is only known at
link time, or a difference between symbols in different sections.

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