Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!info-vax From: info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA Newsgroups: fa.info-vax Subject: Bliss Message-ID: <5321@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 15:29:12 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.5321 Posted: Thu Mar 7 15:29:12 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Mar-85 04:25:34 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.ARPA Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 27 From: Dale Moorei've got some bliss code like this: external literal foo; global bind quack=foo; the compiler points at foo and gives a warning to the effect that this must be a link time constant. can someone explain to me how foo could not be a link time constant? i thought that's what external symbols were all about. Don, Check out the Bliss Language Guide, Page 14-6 Section 14.3.2 The data-name-value expression in a GLOBAL bind-data-declaration is limited to a restricted subset of link-time-constant-expressions, in that it must not contain a name declared EXTERNAL, EXTERNAL ROUTINE or EXTERNAL LITERAL unless that name is an operand of a compile-time-constant-expression (see Section 7.1.2, item 7). Although the error message is very cryptic, the compiler performs according to the Language Guide. Dale Moore ------