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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: const void *
Message-ID: <7804@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 30 Apr 88 15:40:52 GMT
References: <6214@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <6268@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <3723@haddock.ISC.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
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In article <3723@haddock.ISC.COM> karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
>Does say: Something too restrictive, as Dennis has pointed out.
>Has this been resolved yet, Doug?

Yes, the rules for conversion from/to qualified types, particularly by
simple assignment, are being changed to reflect the original intent.
I haven't seen the final form of the words, but I think they will say
something to the effect that qualified and non-qualified types may be
freely interconverted and only an attempt to access storage that
somewhere along the way was at least temporarily qualified is constrained
by the qualifier.