Use of Const keyword in ANSI C

[Henry Spencer]

In article <441 at optilink.UUCP> cramer at optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
>        const char*     C;
>    Test1.C = "not a test case";    /* compiler accepts this -- bad */
>
>Should the attempt to set Test1.C to point to another string cause a
>complaint from the compiler?

No.  You have misunderstood the (messy) syntax of const.  "const char *"
is a pointer to const char, not a const pointer to char.  To get a const
pointer to char, say "char *const C;" instead.  Yes, this is ugly.
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