From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <38030ccb65b546888f61a63eb42b6656@coraid.com> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] const From: Brantley Coile Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 14:36:58 -0500 In-Reply-To: <7871fcf50512071130m475c7240i3c65da1b4c900c15@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-jnclzhygfanwwmnsicnngofoqd" Topicbox-Message-UUID: bdd8435c-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-jnclzhygfanwwmnsicnngofoqd Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit It was a way to move the string from the data segment to the text segment. I never found it useful and making strings const char * broke lots of programs that wrote directly into strings. No big deal, but a useless pain. I tire of paying for things I don't use. :( 1011 1100 --upas-jnclzhygfanwwmnsicnngofoqd Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by coraid.com; Wed Dec 7 14:32:09 EST 2005 Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id E20AE5B744 for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500 (EST) X-Original-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id D157C5B60F for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Wed, 7 Dec 2005 14:30:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (psuvax1 [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 07087-01-76 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Wed, 7 Dec 2005 14:30:32 -0500 (EST) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.199]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id A54AB5B5F9 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Wed, 7 Dec 2005 14:30:17 -0500 (EST) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s8so317474wxc for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Wed, 07 Dec 2005 11:30:17 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=NYxAXCYOfqn+AxrFmDP7S7ivyvD8SlC12vGVf7fcIHsKu9wzzxDXTEnFddTfRk5qozGg2qn+3aHTQ0/p/4E8FrJxXzHxFgPA4rEAOQ5gttup382R/OcrQr2dpZTS438xD6WtzTSOlUwxYenc0PxyzIrbR76pm9YsCFbR6uRnv7o= Received: by 10.70.44.5 with SMTP id r5mr2621420wxr; Wed, 07 Dec 2005 11:30:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.47.12 with HTTP; Wed, 7 Dec 2005 11:30:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <7871fcf50512071130m475c7240i3c65da1b4c900c15@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 14:30:17 -0500 From: Joel Salomon To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] const In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: inline References: <7871fcf50512071051l78566a29v28e3bee158884bd9@mail.gmail.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: 9fans-bounces+brantley=coraid.com@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-bounces+brantley=coraid.com@cse.psu.edu T24gMTIvNy8wNSwgQ2hhcmxlcyBGb3JzeXRoIDxmb3JzeXRoQHRlcnphcmltYS5uZXQ+IHdyb3Rl Ogo+IChvbiB1bml4KSBjYyAtUyBzb21ldGhpbmcuYwo+ICAgICAgICAgLi86cm9maXggc29tZXRo aW5nLnMKPiAgICAgICAgIGFzIC1vIHNvbWV0aGluZy5vIHNvbWV0aGluZy5zCj4KPiB3aGVyZSA6 cm9maXggaXMgYSBzaC9lZC9zZWQgc2NyaXB0IHRoYXQgY2hhbmdlcyBjZXJ0YWluIC5kYXRhIHRv IC50ZXh0CgpTbyBpdCBkb2VzIHRoZSBvcHRpbWl6YXRpb24gcG9zc2libGUgd2l0aCBjb25zdC4g IE5vdCB0aGUgImludGVyZmFjZSIKcGFydCwgdGhvdWdoLiAgSWYgeW91IGRvbid0IGxpa2UgdHlw ZSBkZWNvcmF0aW9ucywgSSBndWVzcyB0aGlzIHdheSdzCmJldHRlci4KCi0tSm9lbAo= --upas-jnclzhygfanwwmnsicnngofoqd--