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From: pete <pfiland@mindspring.com>
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Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 
> pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> writes:
> 
> > Ben Pfaff wrote:
> >>
> >> pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> writes:
> >>
> >> > Also,
> >> > if the parameters are const qualified
> >> > in the definition of a function,
> >> > then they should also be const qualified in any prototype
> >> > of that function.
> >>
> >> Are you are expressing a style preference here?  I do not think
> >> that the C standard makes that requirement.
> >
> > That's what a prototype is.
> 
> I think that you have missed the following parenthetical in
> 6.7.5.3 "Function declarators (including prototypes)":
> 
>       (In the determination of type compatibility and of a
>       composite type, each parameter declared with function or
>       array type is taken as having the adjusted type and each
>       parameter declared with qualified type is taken as having
>       the unqualified version of its declared type.)

Yes, I did miss that.

-- 
pete