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I've never used const modifiers, so I assumed that this would be OK,

#include <stdio.h>

int
main()
{
   const int i = 0;
   
   (int)i = 1;				/* Fails */
   *(int *)&i = 1;			/* OK */
	    
   return(0);
}
	       
Thinking about ROMs my guess is that gcc and the IBM xlc compilers are
correct to reject the former assignment, and that their acceptance of
the latter is permitted, but could anyone comment? 

What do you think about the portability of the cast? (I want to set
the variable once in a private place just after mallocing it, in case
you wonder why I am trying to get around a const restriction, and
don't see why I can't just initialise it)

			Robert
			
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