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o Re: pointer to pointer to constAnand Hariharan

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 by: Anand Hariharan - Sun, 16 Jul 2023 02:18 UTC

On Wednesday, May 25, 2005 at 8:02:58 PM UTC, Morten Frederiksen wrote:
> Can anyone explain why this does not work?
> int a = 42;
> int* b = &a;
> const int** c = &b; // error
> I get "invalid conversion from `int**' to `const int**'" from the
> compiler. Logically there should not be a problem, so perhaps it is a
> limitation on the compiler.
> Regards
> Morten Frederiksen

This is a FAQ:

https://isocpp.org/wiki/faq/const-correctness#constptrptr-conversion

best,
- Anand

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