On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 23:23:06 -0800, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote:
> Gee, you'd better tell Microsoft! Their entire C Library for Visual C
> uses const throughout. <bg> A few simple examples:
>
> size_t strlen( const char *string );
> int strcmp( const char *string1, const char *string2 );
> size_t strspn( const char *string1, const char *string2 );
> char *strrchr( const char *string, int c );
The const in strrchr (and strchar, strstr, strpbrk etc.) isn't too great:
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
const char text[] = "Foo";
*strrchr(text, 'F') = 'B';
puts(text);
}
Although that doesn't stop const being useful, just points out a
problem with the C standard library.
Daniel
