On Sun, 7 Jul 2013 17:27:38 +0200 Peter Enerccio <enerc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Constness of a pointer, in c and c++ means absolutely nothing. It is just a > way for programmer to self policy, same as private/public in c++/java, they > are only for compilers to throw errors and programmers to avoid those > errors. In memory, it is just data, and as data, in c you can force > compiler to represent them in any way, ie cast. Anyways, glad to be help. It can also serve as a hint to the compiler such that it may optimize more aggressively by assuming that those will not be modified in that scope, so not exactly nothing :) (see http://gotw.ca/gotw/081.htm for a discussion of the possibilities and limits of this though) But I agree that it's most useful for humans, and with the rest, -- Matt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Ecls-list mailing list Ecls-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ecls-list
