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Steve Clamage (clamage@Eng.Sun.COM) wrote:
 
: >const char *messages[]={"Fun", "Stuff};
: >const char fun[]="message";
: >
: >messages is made external, and fun is internal.  This seems wrong to me,
: >both should be internal.
:
: No, GNU is correct. "messages" is not const, so it is made external.
: That is "messages" is a non-const pointer to a const char. On the
: other hand, "fun" is a const array of chars.
 
I'm sure it's intended that "fun" should have internal linkage.  But
from a casual perusal of the draft (April working paper), it seems to
me that "fun" is not a const array of char, but an array of const
char, and that "fun" itself is _not_ const (although "fun[0]" is), and
so it has external linkage.
 
Have I missed something, or is this a mistake in the draft?

-- 
John Rickard
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