\documentclass{article} %%% PACKAGES \usepackage{geometry} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[parfill]{parskip} \usepackage{subfig} \usepackage{listings} \usepackage{color} \usepackage{sectsty} %%% GEOMETRY FOR DOCUMENT \geometry{a4paper} %%% HEADERS/FOOTERS APPEARANCE \usepackage{fancyhdr} % This should be set AFTER setting up the page geometry \pagestyle{fancy} % options: empty , plain , fancy \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} % customise the layout... \lhead{}\chead{}\rhead{} \lfoot{}\cfoot{\thepage}\rfoot{} %%% SECTION TITLE APPEARANCE \allsectionsfont{\sffamily\mdseries\upshape} % (See the fntguide.pdf for font help) %%% ToC APPEARANCE \usepackage[nottoc,notlof,notlot]{tocbibind} % Put the bibliography in the ToC \usepackage[titles,subfigure]{tocloft} % Alter the style of the Table of Contents \renewcommand{\cftsecfont}{\rmfamily\mdseries\upshape} \renewcommand{\cftsecpagefont}{\rmfamily\mdseries\upshape} % No bold! %%% listing language definitions %%% BNF for now, QuakeC will be later \definecolor{keyword1}{RGB}{0,102,153} \definecolor{keyword2}{RGB}{0,153,102} \definecolor{keyword3}{RGB}{0,153,255} \definecolor{comment}{RGB}{204,0,0} \definecolor{function}{RGB}{153,102,255} \definecolor{digit}{RGB}{255,0,0} \definecolor{string}{RGB}{255,0,204} \definecolor{rule}{RGB}{192,192,192} \definecolor{back}{RGB}{250,250,250} \lstdefinelanguage{bnf}{ keywordstyle={\color{keyword2}\bfseries}, keywords={}, otherkeywords={::=,|}, morecomment=[s][\color{comment}]{(*}{*)}, stringstyle=\color{string}, showstringspaces=false, frame=none, rulecolor=\color{rule}, backgroundcolor=\color{back} } %% Title Information %% \title{The GMQCC QuakeC Programming Language} \author{Dale Weiler} \date{\today} \begin{document} %% Title Page %% \maketitle \thispagestyle{empty} \raggedright \abstract This document specifies the form and establishes the interpretation of programs written in the GMQCC QuakeC programming language variant (refereed simply as QuakeC throughout this document). It specifies: \begin{itemize} \item the representation of QuakeC programs; \item the syntax and constraints of the QuakeC language; \item the semantic rules for interpreting QuakeC programs; \item the representation of input data to be processed by QuakeC programs; \item the representation of output data produced by QuakeC programs; \item the restrictions and limits imposed by a conforming implementation of QuakeC. \end{itemize} This document does not specify \begin{itemize} \item the mechanism by which QuakeC programs are transformed for use by a data- processing system; \item the mechanism by which QuakeC programs are invoked for use by a data-processing system; \item the mechanism by which input data are transformed for use by a QuakeC program; \item the size or complexity of a program and its data that will exceed the capacity of any specific data-processing system or the capacity of a particular execution environment; \item all minimal requirements of a data-processing system that is capable of supporting a conforming implementation. \end{itemize} %% Table Of Contents %% \newpage \thispagestyle{empty} \tableofcontents \newpage %% Begin Contents %% \raggedright % No weird TEX spacing on lines to fill page %% -> Terms, definitions, and symbols %% \section{Terms, definitions, and symbols} \subsection*{argument} Expression in the comma-separated list bounded by the parentheses in a function call expression, or a sequence of preprocessing tokens in the comma-separated list bounded by the parentheses in a function-like macro invocation. \subsection*{behavior} External appearance or action \subsection*{implementation-defined behavior} Unspecified behavior where each implementation documents how the choice is made. \subsection*{undefined behavior} Behavior, upon use of a non-portable or erroneous program construct or of erroneous data, for which this document imposes no actual requirements. \subsection*{unspecified behavior} Use of an unspecified value, or other behavior where this document provides two or more possibilities and imposes no further requirements on which is chosen in any instance. \subsection*{constraint} Restriction, either syntactic or semantic, by which the exposition of language elements is to be interpreted. \subsection*{diagnostic message} Message belonging to an implementation-defined subset of the implementation's message output. \subsection*{object} Region of data storage in the execution environment, the contents of which can represent values. \subsection*{parameter} Object declared as part of a function declaration or definition that acquires a value on entry to the function, or an identifier from the comma-separated list bounded by the parentheses immediately following the macro name in a function-like macro definition. \subsection*{recommended practice} Specification that is strongly recommended as being in keeping with the intent of this document, but that may be impractical for some implementations. \subsection*{value} Precise meaning of the contents of an object when interpreted as having a specific type. \subsection*{implementation} Particular set of software, running in a particular translation environment under particular control options, that performs translation of programs for, and supports execution of functions in, a particular execution environment. \subsection*{implementation-defined value} Unspecified value where each implementation documents how the choice is made. \subsection*{unspecified value} Valid value of the relevant type where this document imposes no requirements on which value is chosen in any instance. %% -> Conformance %% \section{Conformance} In this document, "shall" is to be interpreted as a requirement on an implementation or on a program; conversely, "shall not" is to be interpreted as a prohibition. \\ If a "shall" or "shall not" requirement that appears outside of a constraint is violated, the behavior is undefined. Undefined behavior is otherwise indicated in this document by the words "undefined behavior" or by the omission of any explicit definition of behavior. There is no difference in emphasis among these three; they all describe "behavior that is undefined". %% -> Enviroment %% \section{Environment} An implementation that translates QuakeC source files and executes QuakeC programs in two data processing-system environments, which will be called the translation environment and the execution environment in this document. Their characteristics define and constrain the results of executing QuakeC programs constructed according to the syntactic and semantic rules for conforming implementations. \subsection{Conceptual models} \subsubsection{Translation environment} \paragraph*{Translation steps} The precedence among the syntax rules of translation is specified by the following steps \begin{enumerate} \item Physical source file characters are mapped, in an implementation-defined manner, to the source character set (introducing new-line characters for end-of-line indicators) if necessary. Trigraph and digraph sequences are replaced by their corresponding single-character internal representations. \item The source file is decomposed into preprocessing tokens and sequences of white- space characters (including comments). A source file shall not end in a partial preprocessing token or in a partial comment. Each comment is replaced by one space character. New-line characters are retained. Whether each nonempty sequences of white-space characters other than new-line is retained or replaced by one space character is implementation-defined. \item Preprocessing directives are executed, macro invocations are expanded recursively. A \#include preprocessing directive causes the named header or source file to be processed from step one through step three, recursively. All preprocessing directives are then deleted. \item Each source character set member and escape sequence in character constants and string literals is converted to the corresponding member of the execution character set; if there is no corresponding member, it is converted to an implementation-defined member other than the null character. \item Adjacent string literal tokens are concatenated. \item White-space characters seperating tokens are no longer significant. Each preprocessing token is converted into a token. The resulting tokens are then syntactically and semantically analyzed and translated. \end{enumerate} \subparagraph*{Footnotes} Implementations shall behave as if these steps occur separately, even though many are likely to be folded together in practice. Source files need not be stored as file, nor need there be any one-to-one correspondence between these items and any external representation. The description is conceptual only, and does not specify any particular implementation. \paragraph*{Diagnostics} A conforming implementation shall produce at least on diagnostic message(identified in an implementation-defined manner) if a source file contains a violation of any syntax rule or constraint, even if the behavior is also explicitly specified as undefined or implementation-defined. Diagnostic messages need not be produced in other circumstances. %% ->-> Execution environments %% \subsubsection{Execution environment} A conforming execution environment shall provide at minimal the following 15 definitions for built in functions, with an accompanying header or source file that defines them. \begin{enumerate} \item entity () spawn \item void (entity) remove \item string (float) ftos \item string (vector) vtos \item string (entity) etos \item float (string) stof \item void (string, ...) dprint \item void (entity) eprint \item float (float) rint \item float (float) floor \item float (float) ceil \item float (float) fabs \item float (float) sin \item float (float) cos \item float (float) sqrt \end{enumerate} The numbers of which these built-ins are assigned is implementation-defined; an implementation is allowed to use these built-ins however it sees fit. \pagebreak %% -> Language %% \section{Language} \subsection{Notation} The syntax notation used in this document is that of a BNF specification. A set of derivation rules, often written as: \begin{lstlisting}[language=bnf] symbol ::= expression \end{lstlisting} Where symbol is a nonterminal, and the expression consists of one or more sequences of symbols; more sequences are separated by a vertical bar \textbar, indicating a choice, the whole being a possible substitution for the symbol on the left. Symbols that never appear on the left side are terminals. \linebreak This document defines language syntax throughout it's way at defining language constructs If you're interested in a summary of the language syntax, one is given in annex A. %% -> Concepts %% \subsection{Concepts} %% ->-> Scopes of identifiers %% \subsubsection{Scopes of identifiers} An identifier can denote an object; a function, or enumeration; a label name; a macro name; or a macro parameter. The same identifier can denote different items at different points in the program. A member of an enumeration is called an enumeration constant. Macro names and macro parameters are not considered further here, because prior to the semantic phase of program translation any occurrences of macro names in the source file are replaced by the preprocessing token sequences that constitute their macro definitions. \linebreak For each different item that an identifier designates, the identifier is visible (i.e, can be used) only within a region of program text called its scope. Different items designated by the same identifier either have different scopes, or are in different name spaces. There are four kinds of scopes: function, file, block and function prototype. (A function prototype is a declaration of a function that declares the types of its parameters.) \linebreak A label name is the only kind of identifier that has function scope. It can be used (in a goto statement) anywhere in the function in which it appears, and is declared implicitly by its syntactic appearance (prefixed by a colon :, and suffixed with a statement). \linebreak Every other identifier has scope determined by the placement of its declaration (in a declarator or type specifier). If the declarator or type specifier that declares the identifier appears outside any block or list of parameters, the identifier has file scope, which terminates at the end of the file. If the declartor or type specifier that declares the identifier appears inside a block or within the list of parameter declarations in a function definition, the identifier has block scope, which terminates at the end of the associated block. If the declarator or type specifier that declares the identifier appears within the list of parameter declarations in a function prototype (not part of a function definition), the identifier has function prototype scope, which terminates at the end of the function declarator. If an identifier designates two different items in the same name space, the scopes might overlap. If so, the scope of one item (the inner scope) will be a strict subset of the scope of the other item (the outer scope). Within the inner scope, the identifier designates the item declared in the inner scope; the item declared in the outer scope is hidden (and not visible) within the inner scope. \linebreak Unless explicitly stated otherwise, where this document uses the term "identifier" to refer to some item (as opposed to the syntactic construct), it refers to the item in the relevant name space whose declaration is visible at the point the identifier occurs. \linebreak Two identifiers have the same scope if and only if their scopes terminate at the same point. \linebreak Each enumeration constant has scope that begins just after the appearance of its defining enumerator in an enumerator list. Any other identifier has scope that begins just after the completion of its declarator. %% ->-> Name spaces of identifiers %% \subsubsection{Name spaces of identifiers} If more than one declaration of a particular identifier is visible at any point in a source file, the syntactic context disambiguates uses that refer to different items. Thus, there are separate name spaces for various categories of identifiers, as follows: \linebreak \begin{itemize} \item Label names (disambiguated by the syntax of the label declaration and use); \item Enumerations (disambiguated by following the keyword enum); \item All other identifiers, called ordinary identifiers (declared in ordinary declarators or as enumeration constants). \end{itemize} %% ->-> Types %% \subsubsection{Types} The meaning of a value stored in an object returned by a function is determined by the type of the expression used to access it. (An identifier declared to be an object is the simplest such expression; the type is specified in the declaration of the identifier.) Types are partitioned into object types (types that fully describe objects), function types(types that describe functions), and incomplete types(types that describe objects but lack information). \linebreak An object declared type bool is large enough to store the values 0 and 1. \linebreak An object declared type float is a real type; An object declared type vector is a comprised set of three floats that respectively represent the \underline{x,y,z} components of a three-dimensional vector. \linebreak An enumeration comprises a set of named integer constant values. Each distinct enumeration constitutes a different enumerated type. \linebreak Enumeration types and float are collectively called arithmetic types. Each arithmetic type belongs to one type domain. \linebreak The void type comprises an empty set of values; it is an incomplete type that cannot be completed. \linebreak A number of derived types can be constructed from the object, function and incomplete types, as follows: \linebreak \begin{itemize} \item An array type describes a contiguously allocated nonempty set of objects with a particular object type, called the element type. Array types are characterized by their element type and by the number of elements in the array. An array type is said to be derived from its element type, and if its element is type T, the array type is sometimes called "array of T". The construction of an array type from an element type is called "array type derivation". \item A function type describes a function with a specified return type. A function type is characterized by its return type and the number and types of its parameters. A function type is said to be derived from its return type, and if its return type is T, the function type is sometimes called "function returning T". The construction of a function type from a return type is called "function type derivation". \end{itemize} Arithmetic types are collectively called scalar types. Arrays and vectors are collectively called aggregate types. \linebreak An array of unknown size is an incomplete type. It is completed, for an identifier of that type, by specifying the size in a later declaration. Arrays are required to have known constant size. \linebreak A type is characterized by its type category, which is either the outermost derivation of a derived type (as noted above in the construction of derived types), or the type itself if the type consists of no derived types. \linebreak Any type so far mentioned is an unqualified type. Each unqualified type has several qualified versions of its type, corresponding to the combinations of one, two, or all two of const and volatile qualifiers. The qualified or unqualified versions of a type are distinct types that belong to the same type category and have the same representation. A derived type is not qualified by the qualifiers (if any) of the type from which it is derived. \linebreak %% ->-> Compatible types and composite type %% \subsubsection{Compatible types and composite type} Two types have compatible type if their types are the same. \linebreak All declarations that refer to the same object or function shall have compatible type; otherwise the behavior is undefined. \linebreak A composite type can be constructed from two types that are compatible; it is a type that is compatible with both of the two types and satisfies the following conditions: \begin{itemize} \item If one type is an array, the composite type is an array of that size. \item If only one type is a function type with a parameter type list(a function prototype), the composite type is a function prototype with the parameter type list. \item If both types are function types with parameter type lists, the type of each parameter in the composite parameter type list is the composite type of the corresponding parameters. \end{itemize} These rules apply recursively to types from which the two types are derived. \linebreak %% ->Conversions %% \subsection{Conversions} Several operators convert operand values from one type to another automatically. This sub-clause specifies the result required from such an implicit conversion. \linebreak Conversion from an operand value to a compatible type causes no change to the value or the representation. \linebreak TODO: Specify all implicit conversions. %% ->->Aritmetic operands %% \subsubsection{Arithmetic operands} \paragraph*{Boolean type} When any scalar value is converted to bool, the result is 0 if the value compares equal to 0; otherwise the result is 1. %% ->->Other operands %% \subsubsection{Other operands} \paragraph{Lvalues, arrays and function designators} An lvalue is an expression with an object type or an incomplete type other than void; if an lvalue does not designate an object when it is evaluated, the behavior is undefined. When an object is said to have a particular type, the type is specified by the lvalue used to designate the object. A modifiable lvalue is an lvalue that does not have an array type, does not have an incomplete type, and does not have a const-qualified type. \linebreak Except when it is the operand of the unary \& operator, the ++ operator, the -- operator, or the left operand of the . operator or an assignment operator, an lvalue that does not have array type is converted to the value stored in the designated object (and is no longer an lvalue). If the lvalue has qualified type, the value has the unqualified version of the type of the lvalue; otherwise, the value has the type of the lvalue. If the lvalue has an incomplete type and does not have array type, the behavior is undefined. \linebreak A function designator is an expression that has function type. \paragraph*{void} The (nonexistent) value of a void expression (an expression that has type void) shall not be used in any way, and implicit conversions (except to void) shall not be applied to such an expression. If an expression of any other type is evaluated as a void expression, its value or designator is discarded. (A void expression is only evaluated for its side effects.) \pagebreak \subsection{Lexical elements} \paragraph*{Syntax} \begin{lstlisting}[language=bnf] token ::= keyword | identifier | constant | string-literal | punctuator preprocessing-token ::= header-name | identifier | pp-number | string-literal | punctuator \end{lstlisting} \paragraph*{Constraints} Each preprocessing token that is converted to a token shall have the lexical form of a keyword, an identifier, a constant, a string literal, or a punctuator. \paragraph*{Semantics} A token is the minimal lexical element of the language in translation steps six and seven. The categories of tokens are: keywords, identifiers, constants, string literals, and punctuators. A preprocessing token is the minimal lexical element of the language in translation steps three through five. The categories of preprocessing tokens are: header names, identifiers, preprocessing numbers, string literals, punctuators and other single non-white-space characters that do not lexically match the other preprocessing token categories. If a ' or a " character matches the last category, the behavior is undefined. Preprocessing tokens can be separated by white space; this consists of comments (described later), or white-space characters (space, horizontal tab, new-line, vertical tab, and form -feed), or both. In certain circumstances during translation step four, white space (or the absence thereof) serves as more than preprocessing token separation. White space may appear within a preprocessing token only as part of a header name or between the quotation characters in a string literal. \linebreak If the input stream has been parsed into preprocessing tokens up to a given character, the next preprocessing token is the longest sequence of characters that could constitute a preprocessing token. There is one exception to this rule: header name preprocessing tokens are recognized only within \#include preprocessing directives and in implementation-defined locations within \#pragma directives. In such contexts, a sequence of characters that could be either a header name or string literal is recognized as the former. %% ->-> Keywords %% \subsubsection{Keywords} \paragraph*{Syntax} \begin{lstlisting}[language=bnf] keyword ::= enum | break | return | void | case | float | volatile | for | while | const | goto | bool | continue | if | static | default | inline | do | switch | else | vector | entity \end{lstlisting} \paragraph*{Semantics} The above tokens (case sensitive) are reserved (in translation step seven and eight) for use as keywords, and shall not be used otherwise. %% ->->Identifiers %% \subsubsection{Identifiers} \begin{lstlisting}[language=bnf] identifier ::= nondigit | identifier nondigit | identifier digit nondigit ::= _ | a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o | p | q | r | s | t | u | v | w | x | y | z | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z digit ::= 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 \end{lstlisting} \paragraph*{Semantics} An identifier is a sequence of nondigit characters (including the underscore \_, the lower case and upper case Latin letters, and other characters) and digits, which designates one or more items. Lowercase and uppercase letters are distinct. There is a specific limit of 65535 characters for an identifier. \linebreak When preprocessing tokens are converted to tokens during translation step six, if a preprocessing token could not be converted to either a keyword or an identifier, it is converted to a keyword. \paragraph*{Predefined identifiers} Any identifiers that begin with the prefix \_\_builtin, or are within the reserved name space are reserved by the implementation. %% ->->Constants %% \subsubsection{Constants} \begin{lstlisting}[language=bnf] constant ::= integer-constant | floating-constant | enumeration-constant | character-constant | vector-constant integer-constant ::= decimal-constant | octal-constant | hexadecimal-constant decimal-constant ::= nonzero-digit | decimal-constant digit octal-constant ::= 0 | octal-constant octal-digit hexadecimal-constant ::= hexdecimal-prefix hexadecimal-digit | hexadecimal-digit hexadecimal-constant hexadecimal-prefix: ::= 0x | 0X nonzero-digit ::= 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 octal-digit ::= 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 hexadecimal-digit ::= 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | a | b | c | d | e | f | A | B | C | D | E | F \end{lstlisting} %% ->-> String literals %% \subsubsection{String literals} \begin{lstlisting}[language=bnf] string-literal := " s-char-sequence " s-char-sequence := s-char | s-char-sequence s-char s-char := ` | ! | @ | # | $ | % | ^ | & | * | ( | ) | _ | - | + | = | { | } | [ | ] | | | : | ; | ' | < | , | > | . | ? | / | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 0 | q | w | e | r | t | y | u | i | o | p | a | s | d | f | g | h | j | k | l | z | x | c | v | b | n | m | Q | W | E | R | T | Y | U | I | O | P | A | S | D | F | G | | | H | J | K | L | Z | X | C | V | B | N | M \end{lstlisting} \paragraph*{Description} A character string literal is a sequence of zero or more characters enclosed in double-quotes, as in "xyz". \linebreak The same considerations apply to each element of the sequence in a character string literal as if it where an integer character constant, except that the single-quote ' is representable either by itself or by the escape sequence \textbackslash', but the double-quote " shall be represented by the escape sequence \textbackslash". \paragraph*{Semantics} In translation stage six, the character sequences specified by any sequence of adjacent character string literal tokens are concatenated into a single character sequence. %% ->-> Punctuators %% \subsubsection{Punctuators} TODO: BNF A punctuator is a symbol that has independent syntactic and semantic significance. Depending on context, it may specify an operation to be performed (which in turn may yield a value or a function designator, produce a side effect, or some combination thereof) in which case it is known as an operator (other forms of operator also exist in some contexts). An operand is an item on which an operator acts. \linebreak TODO: Trigraphs \& Digraphs \subsubsection{Header names} TODO \subsubsection{Preprocessing numbers} TODO \subsubsection{Comments} Except within a character constant, a string literal, or a comment, the characters /* introduce a comment. The contents of such a comment are examined only to identify characters and to find the characters */ that terminate it. \linebreak Except within a character constant, a string literal, or a comment, the characters // introduce a comment that includes all characters up to, but not including, the next new-line character. The contents of such a comment are examined only to identify characters and to find the terminating new-line character. \linebreak %% -> Expressions %% \subsection{Expressions} An expression is a sequence of operators and operands that specifies computation of a value, or that designates an object or function, or that generates side effects, or that performs a combination thereof. \linebreak Between the previous and next sequence point an object shall have its stored value modified at most once by the evaluation of an expression. Furthermore, the prior value shall be read only to determine the value to be stored. \linebreak The grouping of operators and operands is indicated by the syntax. Except as specified later (for the function call (), \&\&, \textbar\textbar ?:, and comma operators), the order of evaluation of sub-expressions and the order in which side effects take place are both unspecified. \linebreak Some operators (the unary \textasciitilde operator, and the binary operators \textless \textless, \textgreater\textgreater, \&, \^, and \textbar, collectively describe bitwise operators) are required to have operands that are either integer, or floating point with zero points of decimal precision. \linebreak If an exceptional condition occurs during the evaluation of an expression (that is, if the result is not mathematically defined or not in the range or representable values for its type), the behavior is undefined. %% ->-> Primary expressions %% \subsubsection{Primary expressions} \paragraph*{Syntax} \begin{lstlisting}[language=bnf] primary-expression ::= identifier | constant | string-literal ( expression ) \end{lstlisting} \paragraph*{Semantics} An identifier is a primary expression, provided it has been declared as designating an object(in which case it is an lvalue) or a function(in which case it is a function designator). \linebreak A constant is a primary expression. Its type depends on its form and value. \linebreak A string literal is a primary expression. It is an lvalue. \linebreak A parenthesized expression is a primary expression. Its type and value identical to those of the unparenthesized expression. It is an lvalue, a function designator, or a void expression if the unparenthesized expression is, respectively, an lvalue, a function designator, or a void expression. %% ->-> Constant expressions %% \subsubsection{Constant expressions} \paragraph*{Syntax} \begin{lstlisting}[language=bnf] constant-expression ::= conditional-expression \end{lstlisting} \paragraph*{Description} A constant expression can be evaluated during translation rather than runtime, and accordingly may be used in any place that a constant may be. \paragraph*{Constraints} \begin{itemize} \item Constant expressions shall not contain assignment, increment, decrement, function-call, or comma operators, except when contained within a subexpression that is not evaluated. \item Each constant expression shall evaluate to a constant that is in range of representable values for its type. \end{itemize} \paragraph*{Semantics} An expression that evaluates to a constant is required in several contexts. If a floating point expression is evaluated in the translation environment, the arithmetic precision range shall be as great is if the expression were being evaluated in the execution environment. \linebreak An integer constant expression shall have integer type and shall only have operands that are integer constants, enumeration constants, character constants, and floating constants that are the immediate operand of casts. Cast operators in an integer constant expression shall only convert arithmetic types to integer types. \linebreak More latitude is permitted for constant expressions in initializers. Such a constant expression shall be, or evaluate to an arithmetic constant expression. \linebreak An arithmetic constant expression shall have arithmetic type and shall only have operands that are integer constants, floating constants, enumeration constants, and character constants. Cast operators in an arithmetic constant expression shall only convert arithmetic types to arithmetic types. \linebreak An implementation may accept other forms of constant expressions. \linebreak The semantic rules for the evaluation of a constant expression are the same as for nonconstant expressions. \bibliographystyle{abbrv} \bibliography{main} \end{document}