Shriramana Sharma wrote: > 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. In C, "const" is only relevant to pointer targets. Adding the "const" modifier to a variable has no effect. You need to change lunarSynodicMonth to a macro (#define) if you want to be able to use it in an initialiser. -- Glynn Clements <glynn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - 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
