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. David
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