Re: memparse(), simple_strtoul() prototypes...

["Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On 2/19/07, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> Francis Moreau wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I must miss something...
> >
> > Looking at these prototypes
> >
> > unsigned long simple_strtoul(const char *cp, char **endp,unsigned int base)
> > unsigned long long memparse (char *ptr, char **retptr)
> >
> > I'm really wondering why not all parameters are not all 'const'. None
> > of these functions modify any pointer containts. And simple_strtoul()
> > ends up doing sometghing like:
> >
> > if (endp)
> >         *endp = (char *)cp;
> >
> > Could anyone shed some light ?
>
> The C standard behaves like that, too, mostly because C doesn't have a
> way to say "X is const iff Y is const" (unlike C++, btw.)
>

hm, I don't get your point. I understand why we cast 'cp' into a (char
*) but that's not my point. My point is why aren't all function
parameters are not const ?

-- 
Francis