"Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> writes:
>> In C, the impedance match is a lot worse, so you have to pick and
>> choose where const is worth the trouble.
>
> Agreed. And I'm not sure how much of what Thomas is proposing is
> worth it; it just seems prudent to consider it while the offer is
> being made to do the work.
If the gain is for human readers of the API rather than the compiler and
some level of automated checking, what about this trick:
#define constp
Then you can use it wherever you want to instruct readers that the
parameter is a constant, it's now a noise word as far as the compiler is
concerned (thanks to the precompiler replacing it with an empty string).
Regards,
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Dimitri Fontaine
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