[cairo] Missing const in cairo API ?

[Damien Carbonne]

Robert O'Callahan a écrit :
> On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 20:31 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
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>> And I'm not sure if adding const keywords in the API is even safe.  The
>> compiler uses consts to make certain assumptions.  Can't think of
>> anything in particular here though.
>>     
>
> Compilers do not generally assume that "const" data is unchanging, since
> in most cases the compiler has to assume there are non-const aliases to
> data passed in as a const parameter.
>
> Rob
>
>   
Isn't "strict-alias" compiler option related to this kind of assumption ?