compilation breaks with gnome support on hp-ux 11.00 (PR#1757)

[Thomas Lumley]

On 8 Jul 2002, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:

> mgansser@rand.de writes:
>
> > cc: "system-showfiles.c", line 271: error 1502: Array size must be a constant
> > expression.
> > gmake[4]: *** [system-showfiles.lo] Error 1
> >
> > gnome-1.4 for hpux 11.00
> > PS: R-1.5.1 compiles fine w/o gnome support
>
> Hmm:
>
>   const gint bufsize = 2048;
>   gchar buf[bufsize];
>
> is the culprit, so a quick fix should be obvious (just use #define
> instead). But is this usage of "const" variables an un-ANSI C
> extension in GCC, or is it the HP C compiler that is to blame??
>

It's not in ANSI C89, though it is in C99.

The initialiser must be a constant expression and in C (but not C++) a
const-qualified variable doesn't qualify.

The reason I've seen for this is that the value of a const-qualfied
variable is known at link time but not necessarily at compile time.


	-thomas

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