> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
> AFAIK, const is a compiler directive - there is nothing in the assembler > that make a symbol const. You should see const more like a promise: "I > promise I won't change the value of this variable". That promise can be > broken by a const-cast, K&R, 2nd edition, p211 last paragraph, last sentence: "Except that it should diagnose explicit attempts to change const objects, a compiler may ignore these qualifiers." > and the assembler code doesn't know anything about > it (AFAIK, there is no const in assembler, but I might be mistaken there). This is very true, at least for the M68K assemblers that I know of. Nor have I seen such a thing in x86 assemblers (less knowledge). But: SECTION's (a program data/code "hunk" - in Amiga terms) can be set to readonly - which _may_ be enforced depending on set assembler options (i.e. to generate stuff for ROM). /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE -and- long standing M68K <'020 assembler "guru". -- UTC+01, DST -> UTC+02 -- --END OF MESSAGE-- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
