What are the semantics of a const member function?

class object
{
    int get_value(int n) const
    {
        ...
    }

...


object x;

int a = x.get_value(1);
    ...
int b = x.get_value(1);

class X
{
    int data;
    mutable boost::mutex m;
public:
    void set_data(int i)
    {
        boost::lock_guard<boost::mutex> lk(m);
        data=i;
    }
    int get_data() const // we want to be able to get the data on a const object
    {
        boost::lock_guard<boost::mutex> lk(m); // this requires m to be non-const
        return data;
    }
};

int something() const { return m_pSomeObject->NextValue(); }

class Foo
{
public:
    int bar() const
    {
        static int x = 0;
        return x++;
    }
};