When is 'this' const?

[Simon Elliott]

In a class function body, I'm trying to pass 'this' to another function.
I'm getting an error because 'this' seems to have become const. Any
ideas as to why this has happened?

extern void DoSomethingWithFoo(foo* fooPtr);

virtual void foo::doStuff(void)
{
DoSomethingWithFoo(this); // error: can't convert foo* const to foo*
}

Very weirdly, in another very similar class, exactly the same idiom has
worked. The only difference is that the function is inlined into the
header in the case which doesn't work. Is there some rule that says that
'this' is const when inlined into the header?

 

[Ron Natalie]

In a class function body, I'm trying to pass 'this' to another function.
I'm getting an error because 'this' seems to have become const. Any
ideas as to why this has happened?

extern void DoSomethingWithFoo(foo* fooPtr);

virtual void foo::doStuff(void)
{
DoSomethingWithFoo(this); // error: can't convert foo* const to foo*
}

By any chance is "doStuff()" really defined:

virtual void foo::doStuff() const { ...

Inside a const method, the this pointer is of type "const foo*."

 

[Simon Elliott]

In a class function body, I'm trying to pass 'this' to another function.
I'm getting an error because 'this' seems to have become const. Any
ideas as to why this has happened?

extern void DoSomethingWithFoo(foo* fooPtr);

virtual void foo::doStuff(void)
{
DoSomethingWithFoo(this); // error: can't convert foo* const to foo*
}

Very weirdly, in another very similar class, exactly the same idiom has
worked. The only difference is that the function is inlined into the
header in the case which doesn't work. Is there some rule that says that
'this' is const when inlined into the header?

I've now discovered that this issue was due to a silly mistake I made
further down the inheritance chain. I may have misunderstood the error
message as it said "foo* const" which I read as "const foo*"...

 

[Micah Cowan]

By any chance is "doStuff()" really defined:

virtual void foo::doStuff() const { ...

Inside a const method, the this pointer is of type "const foo*."

But the error message indicates that this is of type "foo *
const". Weird.