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From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Use of Const keyword in ANSI C
Message-ID: <8454@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 8 Sep 88 05:23:09 GMT
References: <441@optilink.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <441@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
>    typedef struct Tag
>        {
>        const char*     C;
>        } TestType;
>    Test1.C = "not a test case";    /* compiler accepts this -- bad */

That's okay.  You've declared the C member to point to const chars,
and set it to point to a string literal.  If you want the POINTER to
be const, instead of what it points to, try
	char const *	C;

"const" is a type qualifer, not a storage class, so its relative
position within the type specifiers matters.