[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The C standards folks aren't that stupid. The function should not
> have their return values const qualified because in the majority
> of cases:
> - the argument isn't const
> - the return value is going to be modified.
>
> The const qualifier for the argument is merely stating that the
> function itself will not modify the argument.
>
> It does, unfortunately, give a typing hole as you can convert const char *
> to char * using strchr() and others.
The question would be if the C standard commitee could define something like
this:
typeof(arg1)
strchr(const char *, char)
or something similar that would carry the actual input over to the return
value.
Jörg
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