From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino" <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/02] ident.c: Use const qualifier when possible
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:06:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200704152106.51082.andyparkins@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070415155110.365070d8@gnut>
On Sunday 2007, April 15, Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino wrote:
> -static const char *env_hint =
> +static const char const *env_hint =
char c; // c is a char
char *p; // p is a pointer, *p is a char
const char c; // c is a const char [1]
char const c; // c is a const char [1]
const char *p; // p is a pointer, *p is a const char [2]
char const *p; // p is a pointer, *p is a const char [2]
char *const p; // p is a const-pointer, *p is a char
const char *const p; // p is a const-pointer, *p is a const-char
[1] Semantically identical
[2] Semantically identical
You can see then that
const char const *env_hint
is redundant, it's simply saying twice that (*env_hint) is const.
Andy
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Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIET
andyparkins@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-15 20:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-15 18:51 [PATCH 01/02] ident.c: Use const qualifier when possible Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2007-04-15 20:06 ` Andy Parkins [this message]
2007-04-15 20:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-04-15 21:40 ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
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