What are the major advantages of const versus #define for global constants?

Question

In embedded programming, for example, #define GLOBAL_CONSTANT 42 is preferred to const int GLOBAL_CONSTANT = 42; for the following reasons:

Answer 1

I think the main advantage is that you can change the constant without having to recompile everything that uses it.

Since a macro change will effectively modify the contents of the file that use the macro, recompilation is necessary.