Re: memparse(), simple_strtoul() prototypes...

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Francis Moreau wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I must miss something...
> 
> Looking at these prototypes
> 
> unsigned long simple_strtoul(const char *cp, char **endp,unsigned int base)
> unsigned long long memparse (char *ptr, char **retptr)
> 
> I'm really wondering why not all parameters are not all 'const'. None
> of these functions modify any pointer containts. And simple_strtoul()
> ends up doing sometghing like:
> 
> if (endp)
>         *endp = (char *)cp;
> 
> Could anyone shed some light ?

The C standard behaves like that, too, mostly because C doesn't have a 
way to say "X is const iff Y is const" (unlike C++, btw.)

	-hpa