volatiles/consts inside structs in dpANS C

[Karl Heuer]

In article <1988Mar13.005411.12592 at utzoo.uucp> henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>... So assigning to [an entire] struct with a const member is illegal.
>Personally, I think such "buried qualifiers" should simply be illegal, since
>they are useless...

Doesn't sound useless to me.  `struct {int; int const;}` has properties
different from either `struct {int; int}` or `struct {int; int} const`: it
gives you a struct in which one member is modifiable and the other is not.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl at haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint