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Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 16:21:18 -0500
To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
From: Donald Brinkman <brinkman AT omi DOT com>
Subject: cv-quals lack an intervening 'const'

Hello all . . .

I have been given the task of porting a small project from an IRIX
environment into a visual c++ compatible library.  To accomplish this I
decided to use Cygwin, since it has such nice utilities for creating DLLs.
Everything has been going fine, with only a few changes here and there,
until I stopped dead on this problem.  Given the member function:

const Foo** FooBar::getA() const
        {
        return ( A )
        }

where A is a const Foo**

I get the following message:

Return to const Foo** from Foo **const adds cv-quals without intervening
'const'.


Now, please, can someone tell me just what a cv-qual is and why the compiler 
complains about this on Cygwin with gcc but not on IRIX with cc? Any help
would be greatly appreciated.

Donald Brinkman


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