From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 12 18:32:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA13889 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 18:32:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from parkplace.cet.co.jp (parkplace.cet.co.jp [202.32.64.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA13862 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 18:32:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from michaelh@cet.co.jp) Received: from localhost (michaelh@localhost) by parkplace.cet.co.jp (8.8.8/CET-v2.2) with SMTP id CAA07110; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 02:30:57 GMT Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 11:30:56 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock To: Chrisy Luke cc: Tom , joelh@gnu.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sharable static arrays? In-Reply-To: <19980112194053.29382@flix.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Chrisy Luke wrote: > He said static, not const. There's a difference. Static data can be > modified, it's just by inference hidden from higher scopes. Putting a const in front of a variable just makes the value read-only thru that symbol. Regards, Mike Hancock -- michaelh@cet.co.jp http://www.cet.co.jp CET Inc., Daiichi Kasuya BLDG 8F 2-5-12, Higashi Shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105 Japan Tel: +81-3-3437-1761 Fax: +81-3-3437-1766