如果你可以使用它，静态const有很多优点。它遵循正常的作用域原则，在调试器中可见，并且通常遵守变量所遵循的规则。

然而，至少在最初的C标准中，它实际上不是一个常数。如果你使用#define var 5，你可以写int foo[var];作为一个声明，但你不能这样做(除非作为一个编译器扩展“与静态const int var = 5;;在c++中不是这样，静态const版本可以在#define版本可以使用的任何地方使用，我相信C99也是如此。

但是，永远不要用小写名称命名#define常量。它将覆盖该名称的任何可能使用，直到翻译单元结束。宏常量应该在实际上属于它们自己的名称空间中，传统上都是大写字母，可能还有一个前缀。

虽然这个问题是关于整数的，但值得注意的是，如果需要常量结构或字符串，#define和enum是无用的。它们通常都作为指针传递给函数。(对于字符串，它是必需的;有了结构，效率就高多了。)

As for integers, if you're in an embedded environment with very limited memory, you might need to worry about where the constant is stored and how accesses to it are compiled. The compiler might add two consts at run time, but add two #defines at compile time. A #define constant may be converted into one or more MOV [immediate] instructions, which means the constant is effectively stored in program memory. A const constant will be stored in the .const section in data memory. In systems with a Harvard architecture, there could be differences in performance and memory usage, although they'd likely be small. They might matter for hard-core optimization of inner loops.

这取决于你需要这个值做什么。你(和目前所有人一样)忽略了第三种选择:

Static const int var = 5; #定义var 5 枚举{var = 5};

忽略名字的选择问题，那么:

If you need to pass a pointer around, you must use (1). Since (2) is apparently an option, you don't need to pass pointers around. Both (1) and (3) have a symbol in the debugger's symbol table - that makes debugging easier. It is more likely that (2) will not have a symbol, leaving you wondering what it is. (1) cannot be used as a dimension for arrays at global scope; both (2) and (3) can. (1) cannot be used as a dimension for static arrays at function scope; both (2) and (3) can. Under C99, all of these can be used for local arrays. Technically, using (1) would imply the use of a VLA (variable-length array), though the dimension referenced by 'var' would of course be fixed at size 5. (1) cannot be used in places like switch statements; both (2) and (3) can. (1) cannot be used to initialize static variables; both (2) and (3) can. (2) can change code that you didn't want changed because it is used by the preprocessor; both (1) and (3) will not have unexpected side-effects like that. You can detect whether (2) has been set in the preprocessor; neither (1) nor (3) allows that.

因此，在大多数情况下，优先选择“enum”而不是其他选项。否则，第一个和最后一个要点很可能是控制因素——如果你需要同时满足这两个点，你必须更努力地思考。

如果你问的是c++，那么你每次都应该使用option (1) - static const。

C中const的另一个缺点是不能在初始化另一个const时使用该值。

static int const NUMBER_OF_FINGERS_PER_HAND = 5;
static int const NUMBER_OF_HANDS = 2;

// initializer element is not constant, this does not work.
static int const NUMBER_OF_FINGERS = NUMBER_OF_FINGERS_PER_HAND 
                                     * NUMBER_OF_HANDS;

即使这对const也不起作用，因为编译器不会将其视为常量:

static uint8_t const ARRAY_SIZE = 16;
static int8_t const lookup_table[ARRAY_SIZE] = {
    1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16}; // ARRAY_SIZE not a constant!

我很乐意在这些情况下使用类型化的const，否则…

我们查看了MBF16X上生成的汇编代码…这两种变体产生相同的算术运算代码(例如ADD Immediate)。

所以const int是类型检查的首选，而#define是旧风格。也许它是特定于编译器的。因此，请检查生成的汇编程序代码。

我写了一个快速测试程序来证明其中的一个区别:

#include <stdio.h>

enum {ENUM_DEFINED=16};
enum {ENUM_DEFINED=32};

#define DEFINED_DEFINED 16
#define DEFINED_DEFINED 32

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {

   printf("%d, %d\n", DEFINED_DEFINED, ENUM_DEFINED);

   return(0);
}

这个编译带有以下错误和警告:

main.c:6:7: error: redefinition of enumerator 'ENUM_DEFINED'
enum {ENUM_DEFINED=32};
      ^
main.c:5:7: note: previous definition is here
enum {ENUM_DEFINED=16};
      ^
main.c:9:9: warning: 'DEFINED_DEFINED' macro redefined [-Wmacro-redefined]
#define DEFINED_DEFINED 32
        ^
main.c:8:9: note: previous definition is here
#define DEFINED_DEFINED 16
        ^

注意，当define给出警告时，enum给出一个错误。