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From: Nick Roberts <nick.roberts@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Efficiently setting up large quantities of constant data
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 23:18:24 +0000
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Brian May wrote:

>>>>>>"Simon" == Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:
> 
> 
>     Simon> (on looking at this, I'm a bit surprised that I didn't need
>     Simon> to say 'all' ..)
> 
> What compiler? Could this be a compiler bug?
> 
> I thought the whole idea of requiring "all" is that it wouldn't work
> in the above case because the memory wasn't dynamically allocated.
> 
> Unless I am somehow mistaken...

Well, yes, in that the use of 'constant' in 'type ... is access
constant ...' implies 'all' (as if you had said 'type ... is access
all constant ...').

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Nick Roberts