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const t_symbol* for highly-used function args #25

Closed diablodale closed 7 years ago

diablodale commented 7 years ago

outlet_anything(), atom_setsym() and making their t_symbol* const was the primary reason for this PR. Casting everywhere in my code is poor form.

I did a regex and there are hundreds of other function signatures in which their t_symbol* can also be const.
All the globals like _jit_sym_char should be const.
It is likely many t_atom* argv in function signatures can also be const

Workaround

One can workaround the missing const on some of these by using the #ifndef