[LIP] Re: linux-india-programmers digest, Vol 1 #1156 - 4 msgs

"Pramathesh Ambasta" <[email protected]> 29 Jul 2004 08:20:42 -0000

Newsgroups	gmane.user-groups.linux.india.programmers
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Thanks a lot for the clarifications.
Pramathesh

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 Josy P. Pullockara 
<[email protected]>
>You got the (const char*) and (char* const) mixed up. Look up
Stroustrup

>(const char* p) means the data pointed to by 'p' is const
>(char* const p) means the pointer 'p' is const
>(const char* const p) means the pointer 'p' and the data pointed 
>to
by
>'p' are both constants.
>
>
Amar wrote:

>K&R2 A.8.6.1 Pointer Declarators.
>A relevant line reads:
>``Qualifiers following * apply to pointer itself, rather than
>   to the object to which the pointer points."



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