const char*

[Norman Diamond]

In article <1742 at targon.UUCP> andre at targon.UUCP (Andre van Dalen) writes:

>Does this mean that you can transform a const char * by calling a function?
>char * un_const (const char *p) { return (char *)p; }
>const char *read_only;
>char *foo = un_const(read_only);

Sure, but why bother coding a function?  You can just say:
 char *foo = (char *) read_only;
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