[EISA] const correctness in EISA

[William R. Otte]

Hi James -

Thanks!  I will take care of that.

Which examples/tests should I run to test functionality?

thanks,
/-Will

On Dec 3, 2008, at 3:35 PM, James Hill wrote:

> Hey Will,
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: eisa-bounces at list.isis.vanderbilt.edu
>> [mailto:eisa-bounces at list.isis.vanderbilt.edu] On Behalf Of
>> William R. Otte
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 2:15 PM
>> To: eisa at list.isis.vanderbilt.edu
>> Subject: [EISA] const correctness in EISA
>>
>> Hi folks -
>>
>> I am looking through the EISA code, and I had a question....
>> there are several instances similar to the following where
>> the intent of the const is essentially meaningless:
>>
>> EISA_EINode_i * const einode ();
>>
>> which means the method returns a const pointer to a mutable
>> object, which in this case the const pointer in question is a
>> temporary and ignored by some compilers.
>>
>> Is the intent to make the return value pointer to a constant
>> object, ie:
>> const EISA_EINode_i * einode ();
>>
>> or the method:
>> EISA_EINode_i * einode () const;
>>
>> or is it exactly as intended?
>
> My understanding of that was incorrect then. We need to remove the
> 'const' modifier b/c you don't want it to go at the end of the method.
>
> Thanks,
>
> James
>
>>
>> thanks,
>> /-Will
>>

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