About const

摘抄几段Dan Saks对const的讲解：

 

     typedef void * VP;

Type specifiers contribute to the type of the declarator-id; other specifiers provide nontype information that applies directly to the declarator-id.

The order in which the declaration specifiers appear in a declaration doesn't matter. Thus, for example,
     const VP vectorTable[]
is equivalent to:
     VP const vectorTable[]
and
     const void *vectorTable[]
is equivalent to:
     void const *vectorTable[]

The only declaration specifiers that can also appear in declarators are const and volatile.
For example, the const in:
     void *const vectorTable[]

The order of the declaration specifiers doesn’t matter to the compiler. Therefore, these declarations are equivalent:
     const void *vectorTable[]
     void const *vectorTable[]

 

 

于是下面的声明就好理解了。

     const int * p;              //表示p所指向的内容为只读

     int const * p;              //同上

     int * const p;              //表示p为只读

     const int * const p;    //表示p及其指向的内容都为只读

     int const * const p;    //同上

 

     char * const * (*next)();   //表示next是一个指向函数的指针，函数的返回值为指向char类型只读指针的指针。