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From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Question on const applied to typedef'd pointer
Message-ID: <9078@elsie.UUCP>
Date: 25 Feb 89 01:57:34 GMT
Organization: NIH-LEC, Bethesda, MD
Lines: 19

Here's a typescript obtained using the GNU C compiler (version 1.34):

	Script started on Fri Feb 24 20:43:19 1989
	elsie$ cat try.c
1>	const char * const	foo;

	typedef char *		bar;

2>	const bar const		baz;
	elsie$ gcc -c try.c
	try.c:5: warning: duplicate `const'
	elsie$ exit

	script done on Fri Feb 24 20:43:38 1989

The question for the gurus:  should line 1 above have the same meaning as
line 2 above, despite gcc's warning?
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	Arthur David Olson    ado@ncifcrf.gov    ADO is a trademark of Ampex.