Dereferencing a pointer to constant

Question

Let\'s say we have a class called object.

int main(){
    object a;
    const object* b = &a;
    (*b); 
}

Question: b is a pointer to

Answer 1

The type of an expression is just based on the declared types of the variables in the expression, it can't depend on dynamic run-time data. For instance, you could write:

object a1;
const object a2;
const object *b;
if (rand() % 2 == 0) {
    b = &a1;
} else {
    b = &a2;
}
(*b);

The type of *b is determined at compile-time, it can't depend on what rand() returns when you run the program.

Since b is declared to point to const object, that's what the type of *b is.