"Joseph S. Myers" <jos...@codesourcery.com> writes: > 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.)
Fair enough, but I don't see any particular reason these rather esoteric rules should affect the -Wcast-qual option. Ian
