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Re: Compiling GCC With a C++ Compiler (g++)
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at cs dot tamu dot edu>
- Cc: "Dave Korn" <dk at artimi dot com>,"'Phil Edwards'" <phil at codesourcery dot com>,"'Zack Weinberg'" <zack at codesourcery dot com>,"'Geoffrey Keating'" <geoffk at apple dot com>,"'Ranjit Mathew'" <rmathew at gmail dot com>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:26:38 +0200
- Subject: Re: Compiling GCC With a C++ Compiler (g++)
- References: <NUTMEGgh8qWO8OsmOP00000041e@NUTMEG.CAM.ARTIMI.COM><jeoej7x73u.fsf@sykes.suse.de> <m3llea6a6n.fsf@merlin.cs.tamu.edu>
Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@cs.tamu.edu> writes:
> If you can a strcture with const-qualified field, you can modify any
> part, except that field. (I'm talking of C here).
Yes, I'm also talking about C. And in C you can have const qualified
lvalues that ultimatively denote modifiable objects. I can't see how it
makes a difference that in this case it is declared as an array, since the
underlying object is clearly writable.
Andreas.
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