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From: jlv@cs.brown.edu (Jeff Vogel)
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Subject: consts
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Date: 21 Feb 90 21:20:37 GMT
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I just started using gcc because I want the ANSI C advantages.

One thing I noticed is that you can't seem to be able to do this



const int MAX
int a[MAX];

gcc complains that it is a variable indexed definition of array a.
Do I still have to use a #define even though I am using
gcc?

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