predefined macros and "MAXFLOAT"

[Robert Seals]

In article <3583 at leah.Albany.Edu>, I wrote;

> is an extern unsigned int. So, it's impossible to do something like
> 
> const float        lims[] = {1.0, 2.5, MAXFLOAT};

Well, it turns out that "const" is perfectly OK, but "static" gets
the error message "illegal constant expression". Strange.

It seems to me that 'const' oughta be NG, and static oughta be OK.

What's da scoop?

rob
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