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From: bright@dataioDataio.UUCP (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Error recovery (long)
Message-ID: <1014@dataioDataio.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Jun-86 14:53:37 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  9 14:53:37 1986
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Reply-To: bright@dataio.UUCP (Walter Bright
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In article <397@peregrine.UUCP> mike@peregrine.UUCP (Mike Wexler) writes:
>In article <1009@dataioDataio.UUCP> bright@dataio.UUCP (Walter Bright writes:
>>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?

I use the Datalight C compiler which does support const and volatile
as defined in the draft standard. No other compiler that I'm aware
of does.