I'm attempting to port some code to gcc, and in a couple of places it's using a construct that it doesn't like. A simplified example is the following (this is in global scope):
static const int A = 1; static const int B = A; This compiles fine with g++, but gcc says "error: initializer element is not constant". The compiler this code used to use handles it fine, and given that it's also legal in C++, I was wondering if anybody could comment on the (il)legality of this construct. Does the C spec simply say that one can never use a variable to initialize another global variable, regardless of whether or not it's constant? Is there some way to convince gcc to accept this syntax? I tried various values for --std and couldn't seem to find any that worked. Thanks, Matt
