Re: [PATCH] const variables are not compile-time constants

[Henri Verbeet]

On 26 July 2010 10:00, Alexandre Julliard  wrote:
> Octavian Voicu  writes:
> > On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Mikko Rasa  wrote:
> > > - static const DWORD user_flags = clip_flags | DCX_NORESETATTRS; /* flags that can be set by user */
> > > - static const DWORD user_flags = DCX_PARENTCLIP | DCX_CLIPSIBLINGS | DCX_CLIPCHILDREN | DCX_WINDOW
> > > - | DCX_NORESETATTRS; /* flags that can be set by user */
> >
> > This should be committed first thing tomorrow imho (in order to
> > minimize the number of potential compile errors in case of a bisect).
>
> Doing a bisect with custom compile flags is not a good idea. That sort
> of thing happens from time to time.

It fails for me with gcc 4.4.4 on Debian squeeze, without particularly
special compile flags. Maybe it's a Debian thing, but you don't have
to try very hard to run into this.