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

David Brown via Gcc-help <[email protected]> Sat, 6 Dec 2025 15:00:34 +0100

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On 06/12/2025 07:19, Andrew C Aitchison via Gcc-help wrote:
> 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 ?
> 

There wasn't even a C standard in the K&R days.  Part of the aim of "The 
C Programming Language" was to collect the various C versions into a 
single language that could later be standardised.