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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: No warning at implicit removal of const. Was: relearning C: why does an in-place change to a char* segfault?
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2024 23:29:42 +0100
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"Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> writes:

> For some reason I had a sort of a habit wrt const pointers:
>
> (experimental code, no ads, raw text...)
> https://pastebin.com/raw/f52a443b1
>
> ________________________________
> /* Interfaces
> ____________________________________________________________________*/
> #include <stddef.h>
>
>
> struct object_prv_vtable {
>   int (*fp_destroy) (void* const);
> };
>
>
> struct device_prv_vtable {
>   int (*fp_read) (void* const, void*, size_t);
>   int (*fp_write) (void* const, void const*, size_t);
> };

Why?  It seems like an arbitrary choice to const qualify some pointer
types and some pointed-to types (but never both).

> ;^)

Does the wink mean I should not take what you write seriously?  If so,
please ignore my question.

-- 
Ben.