On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:07:51AM +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > On 02/11/2011 01:04 AM, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > >On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:49:22AM +0100, Peter Kümmel wrote: > >>On 11.02.2011 00:34, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > >>>No, const variables have internal linkage, so they will not be seen outside > >>>their compile unit. Simply declare them as "extern" also in version.cpp. > >>> > >>You mean declaring it in the header as "extern const int i" is the same as > >>.h: const int i; > >>.cpp static int i; > >No, I mean that if you want a global const variable with external linkage, > >the correct C++ way of doing it is > >.h extern const int i; > >.cpp extern const int i =<value>; > > This is misleading, a better fix is to let the cpp file to know > about the header. So #include "version.h" is probably missing in > version.cpp.
No, this is the way it works in C++. Remember that C++ != C :) -- Enrico
