[haiku-commits] Re: r37275 - in haiku/trunk: headers/os/opengl src/kits/opengl
- From: Philippe Houdoin <philippe.houdoin@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:24:28 +0200
> Don't remember such an instance, but didn't Be itself change a char* to
> const char* in one of the BMessage methods for Dano and that didn't break
> binary compatibility?
Would be interresting to see how they did it then.
Maybe they just publish both constructors, but I fail to see how the
compiler could allow way too similars constructor prototypes.
> I thought "const" in particular is purely a hint for
> the compiler regarding what is allowed and what isn't, but I have no clue.
IIRC, the const attribute is mangled as K prefix letter.
I'll check with gcc 4, but I can't with gcc 2.95.3 until tonigh.
Philippe.
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