Violation of Rule 11.4 or Rule 11.5?

[Lundin]

But in your example you are removing the const qualifier with that typecast. Instead of a pointer to const-pointer, you get a pointer-to-pointer.
C will allow you to continue your snippet like this:

uint16_t data;
**ppi = data;


I don't think you can regard the declaration of pointer-to-pointers as several recursive type declarations. The const has to be taken into account at every cast.
Because, in order to grant all C programmers insanity, the following ISO-complicant cases exist:

Type** name1;
const Type** name2;
Type* const * name3;
Type** const name4;
const Type** const name5;
Type* const * const name6;
const Type* const * const name7;