From: naisbodo <naisbodo AT enteract DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: what's this mean?
Date: 30 Nov 2000 17:35:55 GMT
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In comp.lang.c Bob Lied <lied AT w-lied DOT ih DOT lucent DOT com> wrote:
 
> Qualifiers are "const" and "volatile".

And restrict, in C99!  (If you're using DJGPP with gcc 2.95.2 rather
than 2.7.2.1, you can use this already as __restrict, BTW!)

>   mem_err("yada yada", const_cast<char *>names_east[i]);

const_cast<char *> is only safe if the object wasn't originally declared
const, so this is a bad idea even in C++.

What's more, C has no const_cast<char *>.  Its C equivalent is (char *).
This is forgivable because you're posting on the DJGPP newsgroup, no
doubt, but over here in comp.lang.c we like to make little distinctions
like this clear :-)

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