Re: ISSUE #?? Proposal: const attribute for input params

Subject: Re: ISSUE #?? Proposal: const attribute for input params
From: Michael Rohleder (michael.rohleder@motorola.com)
Date: Tue Dec 03 2002 - 11:06:56 PST

Hi Kevin,

I am amazed that you say this. Yes, "const" has no impact on linking in C,
but I am far away from naming it therefore syntactic sugar.
And in case of C++ it is part of the name mangling and therefore has even
impact on linking!

-Michael

Kevin Cameron x3251 wrote:

> "const" is syntactic sugar in C (and C++), it has no impact on linking. While I agree that it is good
> to put it in example mappings in the LRM, there is no way to force users use "const" in their C code.
>
> Kev. 

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