Error recovery (long)

[Walter Bright]

In article <397 at peregrine.UUCP> mike at peregrine.UUCP (Mike Wexler) writes:
>In article <1009 at dataioDataio.UUCP> bright at dataio.UUCP (Walter Bright writes:
>>The declaration for a can be made 'read only' by declaring it as follows:
>>	const int a = 1;
>>Doing an assignment to a will then cause a syntax error when compiling.
>>This is in the draft ANSI C spec.
>This only works if you have an ANSI C compiler.  Do you?

I use the Datalight C compiler which does support const and volatile
as defined in the draft standard. No other compiler that I'm aware
of does.