On 23 Sep 2016, at 09:36, Alastair Houghton <alast...@alastairs-place.net> 
wrote:
> 
> Note that you can use *any* type for your variable; in some ways, it might 
> make sense to use a non-pointer type, just to make clear that it’s the 
> address that matters, e.g.
> 
>  static const int kMyContext = 0xabadf00d;

On second thoughts, it might also be best not to use “const”, as that might 
conceivably also get coalesced.  So

   static int kMyContext;

would do.  No need to initialise - you don’t care about the value.

Kind regards,

Alastair.

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