[SDL] Const correctness for SDL video

[Bob Pendleton]

On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 13:17 -0500, Simon Roby wrote:
> On 2/14/07, Patrick Mohr <kc7zzv at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Originally my goal was to change SDL's draw functions to allow the inputted
> > source to be const.  I quickly found out that project would take far more
> > knowledge than I had, but I did manage to make all of the source rectangles
> > const.  I'm done with 1.2, but 1.3 isn't finished.  Can anyone think of any
> > problems that would be caused by making the source rectangles const?
> > Assuming that it does compile.
> 
> Won't that break binary compatibility in SDL 1.2?

I don't think that is a problem. 

Just curious, why do you care enough about this to bother with doing all
this work? I teach C++ and I really don't see the point? Could you
educate me on this subject?

		Bob Pendleton

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