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On Monday, August 03, 2015 6:41:22 PM walt wrote: |
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> That line declares *hostname as a constant and then the statement below |
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> proceeds to assign a value to the 'constant'. I wonder how many hours |
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> of frustration have been suffered by student programmers while trying to |
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> understand the logic behind that. |
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Because it's not a constant, it's a pointer-to-constant :) |
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const char *hostname; /* pointer to constant char */ |
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char *const hostname; /* constant pointer to char */ |
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const char *const hostname; /* constant pointer to constant char */ |
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Is that confusing enough? |
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Fernando Rodriguez |
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