On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 23:08:04 +0300, Jani Nikula <jani at nikula.org> wrote:
> strtoul() won't touch the data pointed to by p (it only modifies p), so
> in that sense it could be const, but you're right in that it really
> should be 'char *', just for a more complicated reason. Thanks for
> making me look it up: http://c-faq.com/ansi/constmismatch.html (not the
> best of explanations, perhaps, but gives an idea why the 2nd parameter
> of strtoul() can't be 'const char **').

Oh, right, thanks for the clarification. As I often do in situations
such as this, I confused "const char *" and "char const *".
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