------- Comment #3 from hongleij at 126 dot com 2006-12-30 13:46 ------- the question is : if a const member function can call a non_const member function without const_cast, if fun() changed the member in A,like this: //const_test.cpp struct A { A(unsigned int n) { aa=n; } void const_fun() const { static_cast<A>(*this).fun(); //ok // fun(); //err } void fun() { aa=78; } unsigned int aa; };
int main() { const A a(56); a.const_fun(); } the sematic of bitwise constness is not confirmed. this program is inspired from the book <Effective C++>(third edition) Item3: use const whenever possible -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30331