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Subject: Re: gcc violates const-ness of variable?
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> IIRC "const" does not exist in *standardized* C...

No, it exists in both C89 and C99.  But the error is in your program,
not the compiler.  "const" in C is a promise that you do not change
the value, and you break that promise.

It may be different in C++, I don't know.

For definitive answers, try the newsgroups comp.lang.c and comp.lang.c++

-- Richard