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William McBrine wrote in a message to Bob Jones:



 WM> /* get a little-endian short, return an int */
 WM> unsigned getshort(const unsigned char *x)
 WM> {
 WM>         return ((unsigned) x[1] << 8) + (unsigned) x[0];
 WM> }

What's the effect of that "const" in there?

 WM> ... Life is much easier if you look at the source code.

Yeah,  if I _had_ the source code available!  :-)

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