[Python-Dev] Opinions on const-correctness?

[David Abrahams]

As far as I can tell, there are maybe 3 standard library functions which
might cause you to need to cast away const on an immutable buffer:

strtoimax
strtoumax
tmpnam

Am I missing something? Admittedly, I'm not intimately familiar with
what the 'C' committee did to the library when they introduced const to
the language.

-Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin v. Loewis" <martin@v.loewis.de>
To: "David Abrahams" <david.abrahams@rcn.com>
Cc: "Guido van Rossum" <guido@python.org>; <python-dev@python.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 2:12 AM
Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Opinions on const-correctness?


> "David Abrahams" <david.abrahams@rcn.com> writes:
>
> > Only if you change the strings /returned/ by Python (or structure
> > members) to const char*. Changing your parameters to const char*
won't
> > hurt anybody.
>
> It sure will. Inside the functions you change, you may not be able to
> use the argument as before. In particular, you may not be able to call
> functions from the standard C library anymore.
>
> Regards,
> Martin