C/C++ changing the value of a const

Question

I had an article, but I lost it. It showed and described a couple of C/C++ tricks that people should be careful. One of them interested me but now that I am trying to repli

Answer 1

The article you were looking at might have been talking about the difference between

const int *pciCantChangeTarget;
const int ci = 37;
pciCantChangeTarget = &ci; // works fine
*pciCantChangeTarget = 3; // compile error

and

int nFirst = 1;
int const *cpiCantChangePointerValue = &nFirst;
int nSecond = 968;

*pciCantChangePointerValue = 402; // works
cpiCantChangePointerValue = &ci; // compile error

Or so I recall-- I don't have anything but Java tools here, so can't test :)