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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Re^2: Question on const applied to typedef'd pointer
Message-ID: <9751@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 1 Mar 89 05:27:26 GMT
References: <9078@elsie.UUCP> <9709@smoke.BRL.MIL> <2105@solo11.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2105@solo11.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
>Why? I find this illogical. Else how could one obtain what Arthur intended?

It's quite logical, and one cannot do exactly what ADO was trying to do,
although there are other ways to accomplish it.  That's been explained
in a separate posting; if you still have questions ask me off-line.