"Linda A. Walsh" <gcc@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Compile time output: > ct.c:10: error: initializer element is not constant > ct.c:11: error: initializer element is not constant If you compile the program as C++ rather than C, then these errors go away, and GCC 4.3.1 propagates the constants to the printf call: movl $6, 8(%esp) movl $7, 4(%esp) movl $.LC0, (%esp) call printf This is one difference in the meaning of const between C and C++. Another difference is that in C++, const variables defined outside of functions are static by default, although one can override that with extern. That doesn't matter in your program because the variables were static already.
