style question - const char *

[Eric Blake]

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Is there a preference for 'const char *' over 'char const *'?  A quick
grep of my locally-modified gnulib repository shows 208 "char const *" vs.
793 "const char *" in the .c and .h files.  The GNU Coding Standards offer
no help - http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#CPU-Portability
has exactly one example apiece of the two styles (one of which is gnulib's
error module).  POSIX 1003.1 2004 edition XSH exclusively uses 'const
char', and I tend to prefer it as well.  Should this be clarified in the
coding standards?

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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