On 20050729T163333+0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On 7/29/05, Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Doesn't that still make N a real variable in memory and does not get > > optimized away like enums? > > I think it's (only) required to have an address. > I don't see why the compiler can't optimize it away (if it's const).
Only if the compiler knows all uses of that constant. With dynamic linking, you can't know that very easily. -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Debian developer http://kaijanaho.info/antti-juhani/blog/en/debian
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