What's the point of const pointers?

Question

I\'m not talking about pointers to const values, but const pointers themselves.

I\'m learning C and C++ beyond the very basic stuff and just until today I realized t

Answer 1

You're right, for the caller it makes absolutely no difference. But for the writer of the function it can be a safety net "okay, I need to make sure I don't make this point to the wrong thing". Not very useful but not useless either.

It's basically the same as having an int const the_answer = 42 in your program.