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- From: fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)
- Subject: Re: ... char * * promotion to char const * const * ...
- Message-ID: <9601903.10111@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
- Sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU (CS-Usenet)
- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
- References: <4dgj8q$qin@unix.sri.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 16:32:58 GMT
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- mklenk@updike.sri.com (Mark Klenk) writes:
-
- > My question is this:
- >
- > Why does a char * * not naturally promote to a
- > char const * const *?
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- It's an unfortunate limitation imposed by the C standard.
-
- Incidentally, this bug is fixed in C++ - your code is legal C++,
- according to the draft C++ standard.
-
- I hope this bug will also get fixed in C9X.
-
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