Matthew wrote:
> So you're saying that, for DMC++, the const qualifier means that the extern aspect is ignored? Do I understand correctly?
> 
> I presume that that's not standard, but don't _know_. Am interested to hear your take on that.

I'd have to go reread the spec carefully on that to see.

Walter Bright <newshound@digitalmars.com> wrote in news:e3de6i$2o26$1@digitaldaemon.com:
>> Not sure what kind of 'now' are you asking for :( On one hand it's kind of private problem since it's in development branch (ie. not in any release yet). OTOH the relase of these sources was planned at the end of April and we delay it due to not finished work around scripts for using more automation in releases.
> 
> I mean can you live with it without a change in the compiler?

I don't think so :( These labels are part of public headers and replacing them from const char* to char* would require other people to change where they use them. And doing such change for only single release (until it's not fixed) would be not nice for them. Moreover I don't even know if they can be made non-const due to requirements of other ports.

OTOH I don't want to put any pressure on you so I can live with informing people that this issue is 'under fixing' and the temporary fix it to do following changes in local copy: .... All in all it is for wxWidgets 2.7.0 which is named development release so things can be broken in this release ;)

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