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Const-Correctness of Python/C

Andrew M. Kuchling akuchlin at mems-exchange.org
Thu May 11 11:53:15 EDT 2000 
Lyle Johnson <jlj at cfdrc.com> writes:
> Some older C compilers wouldn't support the const keyword, so that could
> be a problem.

Note that GNU autoconf already has tests for compilers that don't
support const, and the generated config.h file will #define const to
the empty string if the compiler doesn't support it.  So adding const
shouldn't break even old compilers.  I don't know if GvR would
consider this a priority, but go ahead and post the list of functions
that could use the additional const declarations. 

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