On Wed, 20 May 2009, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > All that aside, I can't think of any reason that the C and C++ frontends > should be different in this regard. Does anybody want to make an
There's the fairly obvious reason that C and C++ have different rules on implicit conversions involving const, so const at higher levels of indirection is irrelevant in C in a way that it is not in C++. (Adoption of the C++ rules was considered and rejected for C99.) -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com