c++/7562: strange behaviour with typedef and consts

[Graham Stott]

The following reply was made to PR c++/7562; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Graham Stott <graham.stott@btinternet.com>
To: Nicolas Noble <nicolas@nobis-crew.org>
Cc: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: c++/7562: strange behaviour with typedef and consts
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 21:56:20 +0100

 Nicolas Noble wrote:
 
 > Here is the simple source code:
 > 
 > $ cat typedef.cc 
 > typedef void * voidp;
 > 
 > void func1(const voidp p) { }
 > 
 > void func2(const void * p) {
 >     func1(p);
 > }
 > 
 Not a bug.
 
 The compiler is correct func1 takes "const ptr" where as
 func2 takes a "ptr to a const" thus passing p to func1
 discards the const qualifier from p.