Re: PATCH: hglobalstream static

[Alexandre Julliard]

"Dmitry Timoshkov"  writes:
> "Marcus Meissner"  wrote:
> > /***
> > -
> > - This implements the IUnknown method AddRef for this
> > -
> > - class
> > - */
> >
> > +static ULONG WINAPI HGLOBALStreamImpl_AddRef(
> > - IStream* iface)
> >
> > +{
> > - HGLOBALStreamImpl* const This=(HGLOBALStreamImpl*)iface;
> > - return InterlockedIncrement(&This->ref);
> >
> > +}
>
> I understand that this is an existing code, but calling InterlockedIncrement
> for a 'const' pointer looks very suspicious. Same for HGLOBALStreamImpl_Release,
> HGLOBALStreamImpl_Read and other interfaces which actually change the pointed
> data.

The pointer itself is const, not the data being pointed to. The const
in that case simply means that This will not to be changed to point to
something else.