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

The only problems you list with const sum up as "I've got the most incompetent compiler I can possibly imagine". The problems with #define, however, are universal- for example, no scoping.