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Re: [PATCH] microMIPS support

On 04/27/2012 03:48 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> "const type *var" is a pointer to a variable of "const type" type.
> "type *const var" is a const pointer to a variable of "type" type.
> 
>>> > >  At the time I learnt C (some 18 years ago) that certainly wasn't a 
>>> > > construct I had seen in any language reference
>> > 
>> > I do not see any problem using const for an array, what specifically do you
>> > see wrong here?
>  Not a const array, but a const pointer.


There's a c89 draft publicly available at:

http://nepsweb.co.uk/langstand/isoC/gordon/ansi-c89u.txt

And '3.5.4.1 Pointer declarators' describes const pointers.

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Pedro Alves
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