Re: Add 'const' to an API pointer?

Philip Martin wrote:

>John Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net> writes:
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>>Julian Foad wrote:
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>>>I suppose I can't do this because it breaks binary compatibility?
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>>Correct. IIRC, C-Mike, Philip Martin, and a few others discussed this
>>in the last several weeks on the list.
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>My reading of the C standard is that adding const like this could
>cause undefined behaviour. That said, I know of no C implementation
>where it would cause a problem.
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>
Hm. I expect you're saying that the architecture is allowed to use
different argument passing rules for "foo*" and "const foo*".

-- Brane

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Received on Wed Nov 17 23:27:32 2004