From: mimo Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Annoying: const char * in Allegro Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 23:50:27 +0200 Organization: MimoLand Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <7qrsqb$s9e$1 AT solomon DOT cs DOT rose-hulman DOT edu> <37D3883C DOT 7B53440D AT restoel DOT net_AND_THIS> <37d38d41 DOT 0 AT news DOT uni-bielefeld DOT de> NNTP-Posting-Host: bonlineb60.kfunigraz.ac.at Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.6/32.525 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Mon, 06 Sep 1999 09:45:26 GMT, manfred DOT heumann AT uni-bielefeld DOT de (Manni Heumann) wrote: > >The C library was also written in C. Nevertheless functions like printf take a >const char* as their first argument. I guess it would be a good idea to add >the little const to Allegro's functions in future versions. >Or are the strings changed? sorry have to excuse myself, const is also a part of c, maybe got something wrong due to my own developpement in programming style regards mimo