const and struct pointers

[Henry Spencer]

In article <1214 at watserv1.waterloo.edu> semicon at watsci.UUCP (Robert Adsett) writes:
>...If I either add const to the prototype or remove it from
>the argument to junk it compiles without error.  Is there some reason
>that 'const double *b' should be treated differently from 'const
>struct qwert *c'? ...

I'd diagnose this as a buggy or obsolete compiler.  The semantics of
const in ANSI C were a moving target for quite some time.
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