"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

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