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In article <199510291313.NAA10621@anchovy.atml.co.uk> John Rickard <jrr@atml.co
.uk> writes:
>: >const char *messages[]={"Fun", "Stuff};
>: >const char fun[]="message";

>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?

You're right that the type of "fun" is "array of const char", but the
definition of "const-qualified" in C++ (unlike in C), when applied to an
array, tests the qualification of the underlying element type.
So the type of "fun" is const-qualified.  It must be admitted that
the text relating to this in the WP [7.1.5.1 and 3.9.3] could be clearer,
but the precise question you bring up was brought before the full committee
and voted on, with the outcome as I described it.

Steve Adamczyk
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