-Wcast-qual and casting away

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Wed, 20 May 2009, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

> All that aside, I can't think of any reason that the C and C++ frontends
> should be different in this regard.  Does anybody want to make an

There's the fairly obvious reason that C and C++ have different rules on 
implicit conversions involving const, so const at higher levels of 
indirection is irrelevant in C in a way that it is not in C++.  (Adoption 
of the C++ rules was considered and rejected for C99.)

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