I think you misunderstand. When I see, in a function like yours void function(int const * const value) it worries me because it shows me that the writer doe

I think you misunderstand. When I see, in a function like yours void function(int const * const value) it worries me because it shows me that the writer doesn't know the meaning of const. There is no added value of this declaration over void function(int const *value) or the more commonly seen void function(const int *value) The only thing that has changed in your code is that the implementor of the function can't modify his own private copy of the pointer.