Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!inmet!ishmael!inmet!authorplaceholder
From: rgh@inmet.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ANSI rationale has possibly garbled
Message-ID: <124200006@inmet>
Date: 7 Apr 88 15:28:00 GMT
References: <9791@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Lines: 26
Nf-ID: #R:tut.cis.ohio-state.edu:-979100:inmet:124200006:000:743
Nf-From: inmet.UUCP!rgh    Apr  7 10:28:00 1988


Re garbled sentence in the C Rationale:
The first sentence of 3.5.3.1 (which SHOULD be 3.5.4.1), p.53, should read:
	A pointer declarator may have its own type qualifiers,
	to specify the attributes of the pointer itself, as opposed
	to those of the reference type.

Given the declarations:

	int i;
	volatile int j;

	const int * a;
	int * const b = &i;
	volatile int * const c = &j;

a is a (variable) pointer to a constant int -- const qualifies the reference
type (int).

b is a constant pointer to a (variable) int -- const qualifies the pointer
type (int *).

c is a constant pointer to a volatile int -- const qualifies the pointer
type and volatile qualifies the reference type.

	Randy Hudson   rgh@inmet.uucp   {ihnp4,ima}!inmet!rgh