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add section on treatment on extern statics
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dingxiangfei2009 committed Oct 1, 2024
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const WILL_FAIL: &'static u32 = not_allowed();
```

One other instance that the constant evaluation will reject is any attempt to read values behind a `static` item declared in an [`extern`] block, even though the item is not marked as `mut`.
Computing the address to the `static` item is still permitted. However, as soon as a use or dereferencing of the whole or a part of the `static` item is performed, it constitutes a read access which will fail the constant evaluation.

```rust,edition2021,compile_fail,E0080
extern {
static S: u32;
}
const C: u32 = unsafe { S };
```

## Const Functions

A _const fn_ is a function that one is permitted to call from a const context. Declaring a function
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[enum discriminants]: items/enumerations.md#discriminants
[expression statements]: statements.md#expression-statements
[expressions]: expressions.md
[`extern`]: items/external-blocks.md#statics
[field]: expressions/field-expr.md
[functions]: items/functions.md
[grouped]: expressions/grouped-expr.md
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