const arrays in prototypes

[Theo Norvell]

In article <1356 at crabcake> zhu at crabcake.cs.jhu.edu (Benjamin Zhu) writes:
>In article <2781 at sunset.MATH.UCLA.EDU> pmontgom at euphemia.math.ucla.edu (Peter Montgomery) writes:
>>	Suppose instead that I am passing an array argument.  If I 
>>put "const" before the declaration, then I am stating that the data 
>>will not be modified.  How do I specify that the pointer to the array
>>will not be altered within the subroutine?
> 
>	Use the following prototype instead:
>
>	void DISALLOW(const int ** const mat)
>
>	It's fairly self-explanatory. Add const before mat, indicating the
>	the pointer is also constant.
>
>Benjamin Zhu

Perhaps you mean
	void DISALLOW( const int (*const mat)[2] )
But this is UGLY.

Is the following a solution?
	typedef const int const_matrix[2][2] ;
	...
	void DISALLOW( const const_matrix mat )
If not, I'm sure someone will point out why.

Theo Norvell