Re: const and K&R C - was Re: AW: A: a new bug to old plain C

Henrik Holst via Gcc-help <[email protected]>
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Den lör 6 dec. 2025 kl 07:21 skrev Andrew C Aitchison via Gcc-help <
[email protected]>:

> On Fri, 5 Dec 2025, J Decker via Gcc-help wrote:
>
> > It was my understanding of the C standard from K&R days,
> > was that pointers could inherit const, but not lose const...
>
> My recollection is that there was no *const* in K&R C ?
>
true that, it was added in c89 inspired by the predecessor to C++

/HH

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> Andrew C. Aitchison                      Kendal, UK
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