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Top Forums Programming constants in C/C++ Post 26780 by Shobhit on Friday 23rd of August 2002 09:23:32 AM

08-23-2002

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I agree that compilers are free to optimise the way they like.But i was surprised to see exactly similar behaviour for c and c++ respectively on VC++ ,Turbo,gnu,aCC compilers.
All changed value of constant in C compilation but the value remained same in C++ compilation.

similarly for array index being declared with constant.

Why all the vendors opted for such behaviour made me suspect if their is some standard.

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