[antlr-interest] C runtime const correctness

[Jim Idle]

On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 22:17 -0600, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:

> Shouldn't this:
> 
>     ANTLR3_API pANTLR3_INPUT_STREAM antlr3AsciiFileStreamNew(pANTLR3_UINT8
> fileName);
> 
> Really be this:
> 
>     ANTLR3_API pANTLR3_INPUT_STREAM antlr3AsciiFileStreamNew(const
> pANTLR3_UINT8 fileName);
> 
> ?
> 

Not all C compilers support that as it is , though I suspect that for
other reasons, a C compiler that did not probably would not compile the
runtime anyway. So strictly speaking yes, but I would not spend too much
time worrying about this :-)

Jim
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