const and typedefs, inconsistent?

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From: Kevin McIsaac
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 1995 00:10

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A look at the April draft working papers at: 
http://www.cygnus.com/misc/wp/draft/dcl.html in section 7.1.2, shows the 
following examples:

  typedef char* Pc;
  void f(const Pc);       // void f(char* const)  (not const char*)
  void g(const int Pc);   // void g(const int)

May questions are: why the f(const Pc) resolves to char* const? Is the 
associativity changed? And is it possible to format f(), using Pc, such that 
it resolves to const char*? TIA.

-- 
// kev@lamsys.com
// What the heck did you think it was made with?


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