Re: Compiler error or? Microsoft VC++ v6.0

From: Torstein Hansen (torsteinRemoveThis_at_hansen.as)
Date: 02/17/04 

Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 21:19:22 GMT

"Ron Natalie" <ron@sensor.com> wrote in message
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> "Torstein Hansen" <torsteinRemoveThis@hansen.as> wrote in message
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> > But in this code it's not the literal 0, rather
> > const unsigned long u0 = 0
> >
> That's good enough. The rule says that a null pointer constant is a
integer
> constant expression evaluating to zero. A const variable initialized
with a
> constant qualifies as a constant expression.
>

Right - I'll just have to accept the rule. Even though it made for some
long deep looks into the code to figure out what happened...

Thanks all...

Torstein

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