Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sdrc!scjones
From: scjones@sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Use of Const keyword in ANSI C
Message-ID: <375@sdrc.UUCP>
Date: 9 Sep 88 22:06:04 GMT
References: <441@optilink.UUCP>
Organization: Structural Dynamics Research Corp., Cincinnati
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In article <441@optilink.UUCP>, cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
> [assignment to a "const char *" works without complaint]
>
> So have I missed something here in my understanding of 'const', or
> is the Microsoft compiler broke?

You've missed the binding order - "const char *" is a pointer to a constant
character, what you want is "char * const" which is a constant pointer to
a (non-constant) character.

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