svn commit: r274340 - in head/sys: crypto/rijndael dev/random geom/bde

David Chisnall theraven at FreeBSD.org
Tue Nov 11 16:39:55 UTC 2014


On 11 Nov 2014, at 16:31, Brooks Davis <brooks at freebsd.org> wrote:

> In general, we need to fix the C/C++ standard to us express the
> things we actually mean when we use const (for example see strchr()'s
> use of const).  I believe the last issue now being tracked on Google's
> internal list of deficiencies in the C++ standard.

One of the reviewers for a paper involving this pointed me at Jeffrey Foster's work on qualifier
 polymorphism for C, which would address these issues.  Unfortunately, this work is quite old and didn't make it into the standard.

David



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