What are the implications of using static const instead of #define?
- by Simon Elliott
gcc complains about this:
#include <stdio.h>
static const int YY = 1024;
extern int main(int argc, char*argv[])
{
static char x[YY];
}
$ gcc -c test1.c
test1.c: In function main':
test1.c:5: error: storage size of x' isn't constant
test1.c:5: error: size of variable `x' is too large
Remove the “static” from the definition of x and all is well.
I'm not exactly clear what's going on here: surely YY is constant?
I had always assumed that the "static const" approach was preferable to "#define". Is there any way of using "static const" in this situation?
