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From: "Theodore E. Dennison" <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com>
Subject: Re: Constants: how are they allocated?
Date: 1996/05/06
Date: 1996-05-06T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <318E6C33.6201DD56@escmail.orl.mmc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Dqzvxp.MFo@world.std.com


Robert A Duff wrote:
> 
> In article <4ml2s6$bis@dewey.csun.edu>,
> justin gombos <hbcsc096@csun.edu> wrote:
> >Oops.. I botched on the question.  Let me re-word it.  If a constant is
> >defined and allocated at runtime, where is it stored?  ie. in the case
> >that a constant is assigned to a function or expression containing
> >variables.
> 
> In most compilers, such constants are allocated just like variables.

Unless, of course, the constant is static (on some compilers). And of
course some compilers go a bit beyond the LRM definition of "static"
in deciding which constants to treat this way.

Again, this is all really implementation-defined.

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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-05-01  0:00 Constants: how are they allocated? Justin Gombos
1996-05-02  0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-05-02  0:00 ` Chad Bremmon
1996-05-06  0:00 ` justin gombos
1996-05-06  0:00   ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-05-06  0:00   ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-06  0:00     ` Theodore E. Dennison [this message]
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