Why is my return type meaningless?

Question

I am trying to use a return type of const MyClass * const. However, I get a warning:

Warning: #815-D: type qualifier on return type is m

Answer 1

Why do you care if the pointer is changed? Doing this is like saying:

const int f() {
   ...
}

The value returned by f() is a copy - changing it changes nothing, so there is nom point in making it const.