Const initialization issue, looking for solution
Maxim Fomin
maxim at maxim-fomin.ru
Wed May 29 06:35:16 PDT 2013
On Wednesday, 29 May 2013 at 13:30:09 UTC, Jakob Ovrum wrote:
>> However, since const/mutable aliasing is allowed, you can do:
>>
>> union U (T)
>> {
>> const T ct;
>> T mt;
>> }
>>
>> because const doesn't mean that object would never change, you
>> can mutate it through alias. From the opposite view, there is
>> also no problem in reinterpeting a mutable object as const
>> object (since mutables can be converted to const).
>>
>> Depending on your mutable indirection situation this can work
>> or may not.
>
> Mutable indirection is actually not the problem with this
> solution, it's the casting away of const. There's no guarantee
> here that the data wasn't actually immutable when it was
> created.
It is not casting away const and it has nothing to do with
immutable, also this does not suffer from data was actually
immutable problem.
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