George,

 > ?????
 > If "const" used no memory a lot of code would break.
 > It is just compiler
 > information, like "static", and does not remove the
 > need for memory for
 > the variable marked as "const".

    See 6.5.3. Note 97, George. He is right if and only if the address of
the identifier type-qualified as const is never used. It *is* possible to
write such code in C. Static is also more then just compiler information.
It is one of the three storage duration specifiers - static, auto or
allocated.

    Everybody seems to miss the point that an identifier type-qualified as
const is NOT a variable at all. It is a constant. The difference is
fundamental, particularly in calculus.

    I do not have an abstract machine, so the vagaries of volatile consts
during side effects are completely lost on me. :-) I suspect that they
would still be lost on me if somebody gave me an abstract machine. :-)

Bill.

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