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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
-- 
Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIET
andyparkins@gmail.com

  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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