Re: const*const - what is the purpose of this?

On 23/02/12 13:15, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> On 02/23/2012 11:23 AM, Jesús Corrius wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Noel Grandin<noel@peralex.com>  wrote:
> > > I'm seeing declarations like this scattered around the SW module:
> > > e.g. in sw/inc/swtable.hxx at line 301
> > >
> > >   static SwTable * FindTable( SwFrmFmt const*const pFmt );
> > >
> > > As far as I can tell from my limited C++ knowledge, this is the same as the
> > > more common definition:
> > >
> > >   static SwTable * FindTable( const SwFrmFmt * pFmt );
> > >
> > > i.e. the second const serves no purpose - or am I missing something?
>
> Yes.  Just annoying noise in a function declaration that is not also a 
> definition.

sadly that noise in declarations was necessary because a certain
compiler whose use was required on OpenOffice.org actually mangled that
second const into the method names...