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authorDJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com>2009-06-03 21:02:16 +0000
committerDJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com>2009-06-03 21:02:16 +0000
commitad80246e559bf16a5d1d30ac8fb3b1978f033f9c (patch)
tree42b000995e6f48e42eba663fdec891d94caca612 /include/ansidecl.h
parent27a0a2c5bd6bdef0bf5bb53d98d0ea6d2f0696c7 (diff)
downloadgdb-ad80246e559bf16a5d1d30ac8fb3b1978f033f9c.tar.gz
merge from gcc
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diff --git a/include/ansidecl.h b/include/ansidecl.h
index c83b8c039d9..f9864cd3864 100644
--- a/include/ansidecl.h
+++ b/include/ansidecl.h
@@ -395,6 +395,18 @@ So instead we use the macro below and test it against specific values. */
#define __extension__
#endif
+/* This is used to declare a const variable which should be visible
+ outside of the current compilation unit. Use it as
+ EXPORTED_CONST int i = 1;
+ This is because the semantics of const are different in C and C++.
+ "extern const" is permitted in C but it looks strange, and gcc
+ warns about it when -Wc++-compat is not used. */
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+#define EXPORTED_CONST extern const
+#else
+#define EXPORTED_CONST const
+#endif
+
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif