Re: 100% Portable Atomic Reference Counted Pointer...

On Feb 11, 4:10 pm, Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furus...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

const on function arguments is pointless, though I suppose it
can help readability on large functions.

Const is pointless in function declarations, it doesn't affect
declaration. But it's not pointless in function declarations. This
won't compile:

void f(int const x)
{
x = 0;
}

Dmitriy V'jukov
.

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