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From: mike@peregrine.UUCP (Mike Wexler)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Error recovery (long)
Message-ID: <397@peregrine.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Jun-86 12:54:11 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  3 12:54:11 1986
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In article <1009@dataioDataio.UUCP> bright@dataio.UUCP (Walter Bright writes:
>In article <312@uw-nsr.UUCP> john@uw-nsr.UUCP (John Sambrook) writes:
>>The second feature is the ability to declare certain data structures as
>>"read only." This is done via a compiler switch "-R" and applies to all 
>>data structures that are initialized to a constant value within the 
>>compilation unit.
>The declaration for a can be made 'read only' by declaring it as follows:
>
>	const int a = 1;
>
>Doing an assignment to a will then cause a syntax error when compiling.
>This is in the draft ANSI C spec.
This only works if you have an ANSI C compiler.  Do you?
BTW, the C compiler on the SUN has a -R option that makes initialized variables
shared and read-only.


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