Re: [xml] what should to be 'const'?

[Andreas Stricker <andreas stricker fela ch>]

massimo morara wrote:
 >   Right. You caught the point: macros and typedefs are different
> things.
>         I think this is one of the less documented things of C/C++.


massimo morara wrote:
>    In the function xmlCopyNode(const xmlNodePtr node, int
> extended) [tree.c], what is supposed be 'const'?
>
>    The pointer 'node' or the struct pointed by 'node'?

Beside the effects for the compiler this should be read as:

The "node" argument to xmlCopyNode function is guaranteed not not
to be modified by this function (no side effects).

Cheers, Andy



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