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From: rds95@leah.Albany.Edu (Robert Seals)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: predefined macros and "MAXFLOAT"
Summary: not 'const' - 'static'
Keywords: xlc, defines
Message-ID: <3584@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 29 Aug 90 18:57:13 GMT
References: <3583@leah.Albany.Edu>
Organization: The University at Albany, Computer Services Center
Lines: 19

In article <3583@leah.Albany.Edu>, I wrote;

> is an extern unsigned int. So, it's impossible to do something like
> 
> const float        lims[] = {1.0, 2.5, MAXFLOAT};

Well, it turns out that "const" is perfectly OK, but "static" gets
the error message "illegal constant expression". Strange.

It seems to me that 'const' oughta be NG, and static oughta be OK.

What's da scoop?

rob
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