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Re: Questions about conversions of pointer-to-qualified types.

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From: Stanley Friesen
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 01:31
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In article <1ck68gINNeba@news.aero.org> lmiller@aero.org (Lawrence H. Miller) writes:
|In article <1323@tdat.teradata.COM> swf@tdat.teradata.com (Stanley Friesen) writes:
|>
|>No, it is not legal.  This is identical in `meaning' to:
|>	void *vp;
|>	const char *ccp;
|>		vp = ccp;
|>[The order of "const" and "char" does not matter].
|
|	Nope.
|	
|		const char *ccp;
|	means that ccp is a pointer (not a const pointer)
|	to a constant char.  After this declaration, an
|	assignment to p is valid; an assignment to *p is not.
|
|		char * const ccp;
|	means that ccp is a constant pointer to a char. 

I said the order of const and char does nto matter, *not* the order of
"const", "char" and "*" does not matter.  The two examples in the original
differ *only* in the order of the const and char.  *Both* put the "*"
after the key words.

Your example is a different animal altogether.
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From: swf@teradata.com (Stanley Friesen)
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Subject: Re: Questions about conversions of pointer-to-qualified types.
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Date: 29 Oct 92 01:31:00 GMT
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