Re:My personal C coding style as of late 2023
by dundarious on Sunday October 08, 2023 @10:16PM
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> > I’ll cast away the const if needed.
> Undefined behavior[2]
To be clear, it's only UB if the object was defined const, which is the case given he wrote:
> One small exception: I still like it as a hint to place static tables in read-only memory closer to the code. I’ll cast away the const if needed.
So you are correct on this point. Funnily enough, such objects are relatively rare IME, so I had to double-check to see that he was advocating it in the rare case where it must not be applied.
> Undefined behavior[2]
To be clear, it's only UB if the object was defined const, which is the case given he wrote:
> One small exception: I still like it as a hint to place static tables in read-only memory closer to the code. I’ll cast away the const if needed.
So you are correct on this point. Funnily enough, such objects are relatively rare IME, so I had to double-check to see that he was advocating it in the rare case where it must not be applied.