"Manuel López-Ibáñez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Dear all, | | from comments in the #gcc irc channel, I understood that it is not | advisable for gcc patches to use the const qualifier in function | prototypes. I would like to understand why. Apart from its main | purpose, I believed that the use of 'const' helps the compiler to | optimise the code.
We we do have numbers that support that claim for real programs, then we have a bug in the optimizers :-) -- Gaby
