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SubjectRe: [PATCH] fix warning about duplicate 'const'
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Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> writes:

| On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 05:32:11PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
| > Also, I'm not convinced this isn't a gcc regression. It would be stupid to
| > "fix" something that makes old gcc's complain, when they may be doing the
| > right thing.
|
| Problem is, that we're supposed to complain for
|
| const const int x;
| and
| typedef const int t;
| const t x;

If I can help with an existing pratice, in C++ the former is
invalid and the second is valid -- the extra const is just silently
ignored. Therefore, in C++ land the construct

| const int a;
| const __typeof(a) x;

would be accepted because __typeof__ acts like an unnamed typedef[*].
(And in effect, g++ will accept the code -- assuming you abstract over
initializers). So, it does not look like an innovation here.
I don't know whether this should be another case for "C is different
from C++".


[*] Yes, an alias that does not introduce a name is strange alias, but
that is what __typeof__ does.

-- Gaby
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