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Comment by colanderman

9 years ago

Nope, * const means that the identifier (i.e. thing to the right of the star) is const. That is, in this example, the symbol "bar" is const, not anything that it points to. So once you dereference it, the const no longer matters.

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cyphar  9 years ago

You're right, I got confused. const is read as "the thing to the right of me is const". const * means const pointer, * const means pointer to const.

  • wruza  9 years ago

    Vice versa. Const pointer:

        int *const p;

    Pointer to const value:

        const int *p
    int const *p

    >const is read as "the thing to the right of me is const"

    const is one of storage classes and is read at its order, not just "to the right".

    • cyphar  9 years ago

      Wow. I literally was staring at my test case when I wrote it and I _still_ got it wrong. I think I need to get some more sleep...