Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 21:20:21 -0500 (CDT) From: James Hu <jxh@cs.wustl.edu> To: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions Mailgroup) Subject: interpretation? Message-ID: <199610160220.VAA00456@plethora.cs.wustl.edu> In-Reply-To: <199610160045.RAA19446@athena.tera.com> References: <199610160045.RAA19446@athena.tera.com>
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Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> writes:
> Can any resident C wizard interpret this parameter definition for me?
>> localtime(const time_t * const timep)
timep is a constant pointer to a time_t constant
an equivalent type is: time_t const * const timep
timep is a constant pointer to a constant time_t
although it reads a little differently.
What timep is saying is not only are the contents of the pointer
a constant (the constant time_t), but it itself will never change
value (the constant pointer).
> And, is there a simpler way of saying the same thing?
No.
Read the C faq (and its references) for a detailed explanation.
-- James
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