Re: [AD] New patch for `const'-correctness

[Peter Wang <tjaden@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Laurence Withers <lwithers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Out of interest, do you think it would be wiser to simply enable
> AL_CONST for all compilers, only deselecting when it does not work?
> Feedback from several people has indicated that all the compilers they
> know about support const.

Actually, I don't see why we don't just use `const', then #define it
to nothing when it is unavailable.

> However, declaring pointers as:
> 
>    type* ptr = 0;
> 
> and not
> 
>    type *ptr = 0;
> 
> is better, since you can see that `*' is part of the typename 

Yes, but it is ugly :-)  I could make a counter-argument, but not here.

> On an off-topic note, is there some utility available for reformatting
> whitespace? I find Allegro's source unreadable at times due to the way
> the indentation jumps all over the place...

I guess you don't have tab set to 8 spaces?  If you really need it,
`indent' can probably do what you want, but it'll probably do too
much.  Try `sed' or something like that.  Remember that if you
reformat the code, it'll be hell making patches.

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