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From:	Cameron Weeks <cameronweeks AT nospam DOT yahoo DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject:	In getopt.c wht is place declared as const
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Date:	Sat, 08 Sep 2001 01:33:02 GMT
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Hello,

I am a newbie to C and DJGPP, I think both are wonderful, and DJGPP is currently
proving to be an excellent learning ground for me. I have a question however. In the
file getopt.c as used in many DJGPP programs there is a variable called "place" that
is declared as 

"static const char *place"

Why have the const part of this statement, my particular curiosity was raised
because later on in getopt.c place is unconst-ed, it seems needless, just don't
bother declaring it as const in the first place. It is also declared as static under
the getopt() function so it seems pretty safe from inadvertent alteration.

Any ideas, and thanks in advance.

You can view getopt.c at

http://www.ludd.luth.se/~ams/djgpp/cvs/djgpp/src/libc/posix/unistd/getopt.c
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