[Bf-committers] Casting arrays (matrices)

[Philipp Gühring]

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Hi,

> > I'm with Maarten on this one.  If I gave you a prototype for a string
> > copy
> > function that read "strcyp(char *target,const char *source)" it would
> > not
> > only tell you that your source string wouldn't be modified, but it
> > would
> > allow the compiler to enforce that behavior.

;-)

The compiler: yes. 
The linker: no!

Just create your own header files without const, compile against your own 
header files, and link against the const library.

I know that because it was necessary to do that with a closed-source library.

Please use const only when you are absolutely sure that nobody ever could 
have any use of modifying it. Otherwise you create a Denial-of-Service!

And please avoid const when you design callback interfaces.

Many greetings,
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~ Philipp Gühring              p.guehring@futureware.at
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