Constant Expressions

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A constant expression is an expression that always evaluates to a constant (it is evaluated at compile-time and it must evaluate to a constant that is in the range of representable values for its type). Constant expressions are evaluated just as regular expressions are. You can use a constant expression anywhere that a constant is legal. The syntax for constant expressions is:

constant-expression:
Conditional-expression

Constant expressions cannot contain any of the following operators, unless the operators are contained within the operand of a sizeof operator:

• Assignment
• Comma
• Decrement
• Function call
• Increment

See Also

• Constants
• Integer Constants
• Floating Point Constants
• Character Constants
• The Three char Types
• Escape Sequences
• Wide-character And Multi-character Constants
• String Constants
• Enumeration Constants
• Constants And Internal Representation
• Internal Representation Of Numerical Types