Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I have a program which I want it's binary to contain a "version string",
> the kind of string RCS automagically makes for you if you ask it nicely.
>
> Now, if I put it in as a const static variable like so:
> const static char * Ver = "$Id$";
I use
static const char RCSid[] = "$Id$";
and gcc never complains even though I switch all conceivable warnings
on during development. What warning option generates the complaint?
Actually, I just did the following:
static const char RCSid[] = "$Id$";
static const char * Ver = "$Id$";
int main(void) {return 0;}
(note that static should go before const, otherwise there is an
additional complaint), and compiled to get a warning about Ver
but not about RCSid. I have no time to investigate now, but I
hope it helps.
For the record, I used
gcc -c \
-W \
-O2 \
-pedantic \
-Wall \
-Wtraditional \
-Wshadow \
-Wid-clash-32 \
-Wpointer-arith \
-Wcast-qual \
-Wcast-align \
-Wconversion \
-Wstrict-prototypes \
-Wmissing-prototypes \
-Wmissing-declarations \
-Wnested-externs \
<filename.c> -o /dev/null
--
Oleg Goldshmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"... We work by wit, and not by witchcraft;
And wit depends on dilatory time." [Shakespeare]
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