[cfe-dev] Is it safe to cast-away constness to use Clang static analysis?

[Csaba Raduly via cfe-dev]

On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 2:20 AM, John McCall via cfe-dev
<cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
> The AST is largely immutable by design, and the best solution would probably
> be to adopt what LLVM did to Type and just mass-refactor code to stop
> passing around const pointers at all.

If the AST is meant to be immutable, why not pass const
{pointers,references} around?

Csaba
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