Re: Building 1.12.0 with glib-2.43 has the following const warnings.

Werner Koch via Gnupg-devel <[email protected]> Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:32:05 +0100

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Hi!

On Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:00, Rudi Heitbaum said:

> For ISO C23, the functions bsearch, memchr, strchr, strpbrk, strrchr,
> strstr, wcschr, wcspbrk, wcsrchr, wcsstr and wmemchr that return
> pointers into their input arrays now have definitions as macros that
> return a pointer to a const-qualified type when the input argument is

“Breaking C for Fun and Profit”

Actually this is a useful thing but this and the new keywords break all
kind of existing code.  We can't change everything for the benefit of a
new compiler and with that break bulding the software on dozens of other
platforms.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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