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From: bs@alice.UUCP (Bjarne Stroustrup)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: const comparison in C and C++
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Date: 17 Sep 88 12:26:27 GMT
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 Free U Amsterdam writes:

brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
 > Essentially, C++ "const" means "constant"; ANSI C "const" means "readonly".
 > 
 > Aha! That means the following is correct?
 > 
 > const volatile int * const clock;	/* clock is a readonly pointer to */
 > 					/* a readonly and volatile int    */

Yes. In both languages.