Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 16:39:41 +0000 From: David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@freebsd.org>, Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no> Subject: Re: svn commit: r274340 - in head/sys: crypto/rijndael dev/random geom/bde Message-ID: <B59B5F07-5322-4158-B698-AD7E2ACD877B@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20141111163105.GA69731@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net> References: <201411100944.sAA9icnN061962@svn.freebsd.org> <3C962D07-3AAF-42EA-9D3E-D8F6D9A812B0@FreeBSD.org> <86sihq5a2v.fsf@nine.des.no> <20141111223756.F3519@besplex.bde.org> <86oasd6dad.fsf@nine.des.no> <20141111163105.GA69731@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net>
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On 11 Nov 2014, at 16:31, Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> wrote: > In general, we need to fix the C/C++ standard to us express the > things we actually mean when we use const (for example see strchr()'s > use of const). I believe the last issue now being tracked on Google's > internal list of deficiencies in the C++ standard. One of the reviewers for a paper involving this pointed me at Jeffrey Foster's work on qualifier polymorphism for C, which would address these issues. Unfortunately, this work is quite old and didn't make it into the standard. Davidhelp
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