Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!necntc!ima!haddock!karl
From: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: volatiles/consts inside structs in dpANS C
Message-ID: <2956@haddock.ISC.COM>
Date: 14 Mar 88 23:06:00 GMT
References: <566@myrias.UUCP> <1988Mar13.005411.12592@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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In article <1988Mar13.005411.12592@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>... So assigning to [an entire] struct with a const member is illegal.
>Personally, I think such "buried qualifiers" should simply be illegal, since
>they are useless...

Doesn't sound useless to me.  `struct {int; int const;}` has properties
different from either `struct {int; int}` or `struct {int; int} const`: it
gives you a struct in which one member is modifiable and the other is not.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint