http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53091
--- Comment #10 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> 2012-04-23 20:50:21 UTC --- (In reply to comment #3) > Hey. I attached it as well. I didn't just provide a URL. Yeah, sorry, I wrote my comment before you attached it. (In reply to comment #6) > Can rewrite both const int and enum, so I don't really see why enum is > permitted but const int isn't, they both offer > about the same amount of safety. http://c-faq.com/ansi/constasconst.html Take it up with the C committee, not GCC. (In reply to comment #8) > Not that you are likely to care, but the Standard states that enumeration > types > are of a type that is compatible with an implementation-defined one of the > integral types. Enumeration TYPES are compatible with integral TYPES. But enumerators are constant, const-qualified variables are not constants. > So. you can rewrite enum values just as easily as you can a const int by > taking > a pointer to it. And that site claims it behaves like a const int. The site's wrong.
