RE: [Dev-C++] #DEFINE versus cont variables in array inicializations

[Ioannis V. <iv...@te...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Per Westermark [mailto:pw...@ia...] 
> Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 1:45 AM
> To: Ioannis Vranos
> Cc: Dev-C++ Mailing List
> Subject: RE: [Dev-C++] #DEFINE versus cont variables in array 
> inicializations
> 
> 
> If you try to compare the address of SIZE from two different 
> modules, you
> will - I haven't tested for different compilers - probably 
> get a linker
> error, since both object files will contain a _SIZE symbol. 


But that would be broken behaviour. So I do not think we will get a linker
error.



> But then again
> - 'a const &int = <value>' is a complicated declaration just to get a
> "magic" address to compare against.


I do not understand the above. The compiler has to produce an address when
we use that address, the same way that inline functons do have an address.



Ioannis Vranos
 
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