• Larry Brasfield <larry_brasfield snotmail.com> Aug 13 2002

This is, I believe, a bug in the way that DMC++ 
treats the construct:
  extern const int whatever = 0;
It will be compiled without being exposed
for use by other translation units (in the
beta compiler as of Aug 8).

My understanding of C++ is that a const
object can be given external linkage
by prefixing its definition with the
keyword 'const'.

This can be seen in section "9.2 Linkage" of
Stroustrup's "The C++ Programming Language"
3rd Ed.  I'm pretty sure I've seen it in the
standard as well, but I'm too lazy to dredge
it up from my failed previous work machine.

-- 
-Larry Brasfield
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