Use of Const keyword in ANSI C
Larry Jones
scjones at sdrc.UUCP
Sat Sep 10 08:06:04 AEST 1988
In article <441 at optilink.UUCP>, cramer at optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
> [assignment to a "const char *" works without complaint]
>
> So have I missed something here in my understanding of 'const', or
> is the Microsoft compiler broke?
You've missed the binding order - "const char *" is a pointer to a constant
character, what you want is "char * const" which is a constant pointer to
a (non-constant) character.
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