Re: svn commit: rev 7365 - in trunk/subversion: include libsvn_subr libsvn_wc

kfogel@collab.net writes:

> julianfoad@tigris.org writes:
>> Log:
>> Remove "const" where it was over-zealously used on some function parameters
>> that are passed by value. It has no meaning in the interface, and only
>> exposes an artifact of the current implementation.
>
> Doesn't 'const' prevent the callee from changing the value of the
> argument locally?

No, 'const' in the function prototype doesn't do that.

   void svn_client_foo (const int x);
   void svn_client_foo (int x) { x = 1; }

Is perfectly valid C.

-- 
Philip Martin
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