Re: A: a new bug to old plain C

Simon Richter <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gcc.help
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

On 11/26/25 3:14 PM, Александр Поваляев via Gcc-help wrote:

> Could somebody point out where in the C standard a conversion "Foo**" ->
> "const Foo * const * const" is prohibited?

It's disallowed because

     void foo(int const *const p)
     {
         int *nonconst_p;
         int *const *const pp = &nonconst_p;
         *pp = p;
         *nonconst_p = 42;
     }

would allow overwriting a variable passed in as pointer-to-const.

    Simon
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