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Subject: Re: typedefs and structs
From: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
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On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 22:53 +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> thockin@hockin.org writes:
> 
> > Sigh, That's funny - I've written C++ code which has references as members
> > of objects.  You absolutely *can* store a reference.
> 
> You can _initialize_, but not _modify_ (reseat) it.
                                          reset?
As in:
----  snip  ----
struct x {
	struct y * const p;
};
----  snip  ----

We assume that no one casts the "const" away.

	Bernd
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