ANSI C suggestions

[Henry Spencer]

> ...  I suspect it [const] works as you suggest - i.e., an implementation
> can ignore it if it chooses.

Not quite.  There are things that you cannot do to a variable of const
type -- e.g., use it on the left-hand-side of an assignment operator --
and these must be diagnosed even if const things are not special in any
other way.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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