-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-02-27 08:09:57 (+0000), Kristof Provost <Kristof@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2008-02-26 20:02:06 (+0530), Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. I took a better look. I get the same error with gcc. It looks like this is allowed in C++ and not in plain C (or at least, g++ allows it and gcc doesn't). Kristof -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHxSBIUEZ9DhGwDugRAkCiAJoCe+3665vkuJCWxdJTNsu/CxAAzgCePlm4 0OTsa8DQNj/CCG2eKiFrXp4= =9GTz -----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
