------- Comment #3 from raeburn at raeburn dot org 2007-08-15 06:03 ------- Section 6.7.3 says: "If the specification of an array type includes any type qualifiers, the element type is so-qualified, not the array type." The more I think about it, the more I think the compiler is technically correct, though I think this is probably a bug in the standard.
I brought this up on comp.std.c a couple weeks or so ago, though, and while Doug Gwyn, whose interpretation on these things I generally respect, seemed to indicate that my current interpretation is wrong (and that it should indeed be "const array of 8 chars"), he didn't provide references to that effect, so I'm not sure where that interpretation comes from. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31887
