Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!smsdpg!seg
From: seg@smsdpg.uu.net (Scott Garfinkle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Another msc 5.1 bug
Message-ID: <139@smsdpg.uu.net>
Date: 3 Jan 89 18:18:49 GMT
Reply-To: seg@smsdpg.UUCP (Scott Garfinkle)
Organization: SMS Data Products Group, Inc.
Lines: 18

I just ran across a neat new (?) bug in MSC5.1:
#line 1 "foo.c"
fun() {
	extern int * const a;
	int * const b = a;

	b[0] = 1;
}

produces "foo.c(5) : error C2166: lval specifies 'const' object"

In other words, you can't use a const pointer to a non-const chunk of memory. 

		Scott E. Garfinkle
		SMS Data Products Group, Inc.
		smsdpg!seg@uunet.uu.net

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