Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!smsdpg!seg
From: seg@smsdpg.uu.net (Scott Garfinkle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Another msc 5.1 bug
Message-ID: <142@smsdpg.uu.net>
Date: 6 Jan 89 14:56:43 GMT
References: <489@sdrc.UUCP>
Organization: SMS Data Products Group, Reston VA
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From article by scjones@sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones):
> marco@hpmcaa.HP.COM (Marco Dalla-Gasperina) writes:
>>> ... in MSC5.1:
>>> you can't use a const pointer to a non-const chunk of memory. 
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>> ...
>> Seems backwards but thats what the manual says!
> 
> Well, if that's what the manual says, it's wrong!  (As is the
> compiler, apparently.)


"Only" the compiler is wrong. The MSC Language Reference gets it right
(page 74, example 5).  Of course the support people at Microsoft haven't
called me back yet, so maybe it's all just a dream. :-)
		Scott E. Garfinkle
		SMS Data Products Group, Inc.
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