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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: const and struct pointers
Message-ID: <1990Feb24.233725.14071@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1214@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 90 23:37:25 GMT

In article <1214@watserv1.waterloo.edu> semicon@watsci.UUCP (Robert Adsett) writes:
>...If I either add const to the prototype or remove it from
>the argument to junk it compiles without error.  Is there some reason
>that 'const double *b' should be treated differently from 'const
>struct qwert *c'? ...

I'd diagnose this as a buggy or obsolete compiler.  The semantics of
const in ANSI C were a moving target for quite some time.
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