------- Additional Comments From bangerth at dealii dot org 2005-01-08 20:13 ------- The fact that it worked for the integer case is by chance, since gcc seems to have been able to replace all references to that variable by its value, but it wasn't for the floating point case. That is often the case since many processors have instructions to load a certain integer value into a register, but don't have the same capability for floating point values. In any case, the standard prescribes that you have to allocate memory for both cases. W.
-- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19320
