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From: kathy@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Kathy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Interpretation needed Re: function prototypes (LONG)
Message-ID: <12040016@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 7 Jul 89 16:22:01 GMT
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I'm still not clear on this.  Is it only the "top-level" qualifier that
is to be ignored for comparisons, or all qualifiers.  For example, are
the following compatible or not:

	int f(const int * p);
	int f(int * p);

where the 'const' qualifier applies to the 'int' not to the 'pointer'.

If you do ignore this for comparisons, then it still makes a difference
in the composite type, because it will determine whether the following
generates a diagnostic about passing a pointer to a constant to a plain
pointer.

	main() {
	  const int *q;
	  f(q);
	}

Kathy Harris
Hewlett Packard Colorado Language Lab
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