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const int * func() const

Explore the concept of returning const pointers and values in C++ functions. Understand how constness impacts both the data pointed to and the pointer itself, and learn to prevent accidental changes while maintaining safe and efficient return types.

Returning a mutable pointer to a const value is useful. The pointed data cannot be modified, unlike const pointers, it is even taken into account by the compiler. As shown below.

Constness of a pointer value

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