To const or not to const...

[Nathan Sidwell]

Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:

> 
> "Hello"[2] (which is 'l') is truly constant, in my eyes. This could fall
> under C99 6.6. OTOH, as also mentioned on #gcc, this may be some
> undefined thing wrt. C99 and it may be in conflict with 6.6.9.
> However, I'd love to see this implemented:-)
it fails to be an arithmetic constant expression as it involves something
not on the list of allowed things that [6/6]/9 lists.

But, we're allowed to accept other things in an implementation defined
manner (para 10).

nathan

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