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From: aglew@ccvaxa.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Does extern "const" allocate storag
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Date: 24 Mar 88 23:49:00 GMT
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Nf-From: ccvaxa.UUCP!aglew    Mar 24 17:49:00 1988


I've not been following this discussion closely, but am I
correct in misunderstanding that a possible use for "const
volatile" would be a readonly variable that is written by
another process? That is, if C supported declaration of shared
memory, in addition to System V style dynamic allocation.

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