[Developers] Const correctness for cGH *

[Jonathan Thornburg]

On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Erik Schnetter wrote:
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> We should decide: Either the cGH structure should be const qualified in
> thorns, or it should not be.  If it is const, then the few thorns that
> need to modify the cGH structure (Time, CartGrid3D, drivers) can easily
> cast the const away in the few places where they need to modify things.

Yes, make it const!


> (My case was an aliased function which calls another function
> that takes CCTK_ARGUMENTS.)

What I do in cases like this is to cast it to  const void*  and pass
it as CCTK_POINTER_TO_CONST.  But having a nicely typed   const cGH*
would be nice...

ciao,

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