Re: Const memebr function behaviour.

From:
Salt_Peter <pj_hern@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
18 May 2007 08:04:41 -0700
Message-ID:
<1179500681.380429.212490@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>
On May 18, 10:15 am, Rusty <r_as...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:

Can somebody can explain the following behaviour. I have a small code
as below:

class B
{
   public:
       int b;
       B () { b = 0; };
       void foo2 (int h) { b = h; } // non-const function

};

class A
{
   public:
       int a;
       A () { cout << "Inside default constructor" << endl; b = new B
();}

       B* b;

       void bar () const { b->foo2 (3); } // problem. how can this
compile ?

};

void foo (const A* a)
{
   a->bar ();

}

int
main (int argc, char** argv)
{
   A a1;
   foo (&a1);

}

My concern is how could this code compile when in bar () function of
class A, I am calling non const function on pointer b ?

If instead of pointer, b is an object of type B, I get correct error
saying that inside const member function of class A, I cannot call non
const member function of B.

Thanks in advance,

-Aseem.


The member function bar () const is not modifying the instance of
class A in any way.
I see a new B in A's ctor but no corresponding deallocation.

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