API : constness ?

[Andrea Griffini]

On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 11:42:03 -0700, Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com>
wrote:

>Yes.  And if a were declared
>
>	static const int a = 3;
>
>it would be illegal.  That is the case that I was discussing.

I completely missed the original poster point. Re-reading
it indeed the literals could be in read-only memory, and
the pointers to those literals could be too (if declared const).

Sorry for all the nonsense babbling I posted...

Andrea