------- Comment #8 from joseph at codesourcery dot com 2007-09-26 12:38 ------- Subject: Re: Warning when passing a pointer to a const array to a function that expects a pointer to a non-cast one
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, jozef dot behran at krs dot sk wrote: > Could you give me reference in the C standard where this is stated ? The > section 6.7.3, paragraph 8, says nothing about C/C++ not having qualified > array > types, it only says that a qualifier applied to an array type holds for the > element type of the array type (these two are not the same things, see bug > 16602 for more discussion about the topic). That which you quote means there is no way to put a qualifier on the array type because any attempt to do so puts it on the element type instead. That there are no qualified array types is simply the logical conclusion from there being no C syntax to write one. Note "not the array type" in that paragraph. The question of whether abstractly one might imagine a qualified array type in C despite the lack of syntax to describe one, and how such a type (notwithstanding the lack of syntax to describe it) would behave if it were to exist, is not an interesting one in the absence of implementation extensions to define such a type. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33076
