-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-02-26 20:02:06 (+0530), Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear list, > > Quite some time since I wrote. I hope you are all keeping well. :) > > A strange thing I ran across this evening. I was not allowed to do: > > const double lunarSynodicMonth = 29.53059 ; > const double daysLunarPhaseAngleTakesPerDegree = lunarSynodicMonth / 360.0 ; > > I got the following error: > > wdf-karanas.c:17: error: initializer element is not constant > make: *** [wdf-karanas.o] Error 1 > > I would be grateful if anyone could shed some light. TIA. What compiler are you using? I did a quick test on g++ 4.1.2 (x86_64) and it seemed to be accepted without warning. Kristof -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHxRrVUEZ9DhGwDugRAjZBAJ9pl0mGAJHPGbwePR0DVXoVh4kRzwCgnTn2 zzdeiILqi1JZ9M9VbUBewr8= =KWWv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html