Re: const oddity in decorated names
J Levin wrote:
If I declare the functions
void foo(int bar[])
void bar(int * bar)
then I expect them to behave the same way - and indeed they do in most
cases. I have give these functions these (admittedly meeningless)
implementation:
__declspec(dllexport) void foo(int bar[]) { bar = NULL; }
__declspec(dllexport) void bar(int * bar) { bar = NULL; }
The program compiles. If I look at the decorated names of the exported
names in the dll they aren't the same though. foo gets a decorated names
that indicates that it was declared as
void foo(int * const bar).
But since the program above compiled that is obviously not the case.
Right, and it's odd indeed.
I'll have admit that the difference between "int *" and "int * const" in a
function argument is irrelevant to the caller of the function, but is
there a reason for this oddity, or is this just a mistake?
Not only that, a top-level const is (by definition) not part of the function
signature.
These two:
void fn( int* x);
void fn( int* const x);
declare the same function.
Uli
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