constness

Definitions

noun computing, programming The declaration of variables or objects as immutable.

const (a keyword for constant in the C programming language and its derivatives) and -ness.

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Now, since the last time constness-matching blew up, I've learned that this is really a bug in Sun's compiler, because constness is not supposed to be mangled into the name.

Planet KDE 2010
Now, since the last time constness-matching blew up, I've learned that this is really a bug in Sun's compiler, because constness is not supposed to be mangled into the name.

Planet KDE 2010
Of course, no port is without its patches, so here they are: constness - this patch matches the constness of parameters in definitions with those in declarations, so that int foo (const int) is defined with int foo (const int i) and not as int foo (int i).

Planet KDE 2010
Of course, no port is without its patches, so here they are: constness - this patch matches the constness of parameters in definitions with those in declarations, so that int foo (const int) is defined with int foo (const int i) and not as int foo (int i).

Planet KDE 2010
The reason they all do that is because the C++ standard allows overloading of functions that differ only by the constness.

KDE TechBase - Recent changes [en] 2009
Reason: compilers encode the constness of a function in the mangled name.

KDE TechBase - Recent changes [en] 2009