Re: Ada Smileys in C++ lib Conversion

[Brian Drummond <brian_drummond@btconnect.com>]

On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 06:12:04 -0400, David Thompson <dave.thompson2@verizon.net>
wrote:

>On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 02:16:15 +0100, Brian Drummond
><brian_drummond@btconnect.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 13:34:54 -0700 (PDT), Maciej Sobczak
>> <see.my.homepage@gmail.com> wrote:
><snip: C const int>

>> >No, there is no such storage class. If these objects were globals
>> >(which was most likely the case), then their storage class is static.
>> 
>> OK you're right, it's a type qualifier not a storage class.

>> >Const means that the given name cannot be used to modify the referred
>> >object and has nothing to do with the storage class (it might
>> >influence the linkage, though).
>> 
>Depends which linkage. 'linkage' is a term of art in the C standard,
>with external or 'global globals' visible throughout the program vs
>internal or 'file globals' visible only in one (preprocesed) source
>file and declared with the misleading keyword 'static'.

Thank you for a concise summary!

- Brian