PhobosWatch: manifest => enum

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Janice Caron Wrote:

> On 12/28/07, "Jérôme M. Berger" <jeberger at free.fr> wrote:
> > > I understand your point, but also consider that adding yet a fourth way
> > > to declare constants
> 
> Actually, I think that's a fifth way. You may have forgotten about
> 
>     real pi() { return 3.14159265359; }
> 
> Since we would hope that
> 
>     real x = pi;
> 
> will be inlined by the compiler, it would yield the effect of a
> manifest constant! :)
> 

Except you need a specific set of compiler and linker options for that effect.
(-inline, -L--gc-sections)
No way to tell the compiler that you want a specific function inlined and
omitted from output.