Constant pointers with ANSI C

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From: Surendar C.
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 15:45

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Thanks to all who helped me clarify that char const * == const char *.
But I still don't get why the warning is given for one line and not the other.
Is the increment operator ++ any different from += 1;. I compiled this
under gcc 2.1 (-ansi -pedantic)

Thanks for any help
surendar

int length(const char *const str)
{
	int count = 0;

	while(*str)
	{
		str += 1; /* Get a warning here */
		str++;    /* Get no warning here */
		count++;
	}

	return(count);
}

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