On 5 December 2015 at 11:26, Richard Baxter wrote: > Hi GCC dev team, Hi, this is the wrong mailing list for questions seeking help using GCC, please direct any follow-up to the gcc-help mailing list, thanks. > I have developed software to parse C(++) code and automatically add > const to function arguments (tracing all functions and their > references). However, I have encountered an issue with the GCC/VS > compilers preventing assignment of typeX** to const typeX**. > Considering that const is being automatically added to the code after > it is written, there is no danger of the situation occurring that is > used to justify this limitation > (http://c-faq.com/ansi/constmismatch.html). The const attribute is > purely being used to enable programmers to know whether a variable is > expected to be modified by the function (no checking of the > problematic case above is required). I was wondering; is there any way > of working around this design constraint? In C++ you can add the const more thoroughly, changing X** to const X * const *. I don't think that will help for C though.
