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From: tiemann@snoopy.crd.ge.com
Newsgroups: gnu.g++.bug
Subject: const function bug
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Date: 2 Jan 90 19:49:29 GMT
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Your line numbers are guaranteed to be different, but here's the fix:

calvin% diff -c2 cplus-decl.c~ cplus-decl.c
*** cplus-decl.c~	Mon Jan  1 18:35:46 1990
--- cplus-decl.c	Tue Jan  2 14:45:55 1990
***************
*** 1796,1801 ****
  	  /* Install a global value.  */
  
! 	  /* A `const' which was not declared `extern' is invisible.  */
! 	  if (TREE_READONLY (x) && ! DECL_EXTERNAL (x))
  	    TREE_PUBLIC (x) = 0;
  
--- 1796,1803 ----
  	  /* Install a global value.  */
  
! 	  /* Rule for VAR_DECLs, but not for other kinds of _DECLs:
! 	     A `const' which was not declared `extern' is invisible.  */
! 	  if (TREE_CODE (x) == VAR_DECL
! 	      && TREE_READONLY (x) && ! DECL_EXTERNAL (x))
  	    TREE_PUBLIC (x) = 0;
  
calvin%