From: Damian Yerrick Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: what's this mean? Organization: Pin Eight Software http://pineight.8m.com/ Message-ID: References: <3a267c5f DOT 0 AT news DOT syr DOT edu> <906dla$lj3$1 AT news5 DOT isdnet DOT net> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 19 X-Trace: /wObnZ/BKP3CD0eJ5E5oGJt7dZuE4P7i5x3qa/gQlw4fh2BV2W35ldB/OODqX7hlZ5X7SfqXJGxT!SoihoIxW/a7oc3oTkCzO2S/HcSil9u1obHZo8YYA8inIz9ElfVa4J8yi2y2za+vmEe3MiFKmQo6f!Lp//Nw== X-Complaints-To: abuse AT gte DOT net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 21:16:57 GMT Distribution: world Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 21:16:57 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 21:34:43 +0100, "-hs-" wrote: >void mem_err(char const *, char const *) YM const char *. IIRC, with char const *, it's the pointer that's constant, not the value the pointer references. With const char *, the pointer can change (using ++ and -- to move around in the vector), but nothing can be modified through the pointer. --