From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] const
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 15:05:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <59f07a0382a6955f607b8d9c97fde230@quintile.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4396ED6B.9080704@Utel.no>
My understanding is that const was depricated for the same reason that
register is - the compiler is in a much better position to judge what
data is constant than the programmer.
The one place where it would have been very useful (to me) was
writing ROMable embedded code, but these days with 32bit embedded
CPUs I don't have physicially readonly data.
To cap this the last time I did use a 16bit cpu and tried to do this,
examination of the assembly proved the (name deleted) compiler was too
dumb to take advantage.
-Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-07 15:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-07 10:34 Steve Simon
2005-12-07 12:17 ` Russ Cox
2005-12-07 13:01 ` erik quanstrom
[not found] ` <000401c5fb32$64502e00$14aaa8c0@utelsystems.local>
2005-12-07 14:10 ` "Nils O. Selåsdal"
2005-12-07 15:05 ` Steve Simon [this message]
2005-12-07 15:30 ` Lucio De Re
2005-12-07 15:53 ` C H Forsyth
[not found] ` <1E68F99F-78D7-4321-BE56-7D0319212596@telus.net>
2005-12-07 16:11 ` "Nils O. Selåsdal"
2005-12-07 17:27 ` Paul Lalonde
2005-12-07 16:23 ` jmk
2005-12-07 17:28 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2005-12-07 18:51 ` Joel Salomon
2005-12-07 18:58 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-12-07 19:30 ` Joel Salomon
2005-12-07 19:36 ` Brantley Coile
2005-12-07 19:51 ` rog
2005-12-07 21:07 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-12-07 21:18 ` Bruce Ellis
2005-12-07 21:22 ` Paul Lalonde
2005-12-07 22:04 ` Rob Pike
2005-12-07 22:44 ` Micah Stetson
2005-12-07 22:44 ` Micah Stetson
2005-12-07 22:46 ` Brantley Coile
2005-12-07 20:33 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2005-12-08 7:39 ` geoff
2005-12-08 7:53 ` Lucio De Re
2005-12-08 7:54 ` geoff
2005-12-08 10:23 ` Bruce Ellis
2005-12-08 15:58 ` Brantley Coile
2005-12-09 1:44 ` geoff
2005-12-09 2:04 ` Russ Cox
2005-12-09 2:19 ` geoff
2005-12-09 9:54 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-12-09 16:25 ` David Leimbach
2005-12-09 16:59 ` Richard Bilson
2005-12-09 17:42 ` David Leimbach
2005-12-09 19:17 ` Richard Bilson
2005-12-09 17:01 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-12-09 17:39 ` Russ Cox
2005-12-09 17:40 ` [9fans] PCICIA Modem TamTam
2005-12-09 18:59 ` Sascha Retzki
2005-12-12 15:07 ` Paweł Lasek
2005-12-26 9:00 ` Martin C. Atkins
2005-12-26 14:19 ` Paweł Lasek
2005-12-09 19:37 ` [9fans] Re: const Nikita Danilov
2005-12-09 20:30 ` Russ Cox
2005-12-09 20:37 ` Ronald G Minnich
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