Re: Re: const qualifier violation in regex.c:re_comp()

Bruno Haible <[email protected]> Fri, 15 Oct 2004 14:38:53 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs,gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.bugs
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Derek Robert Price wrote:
> I prefer to avoid typecasting whenever possible, because, otherwise,
> what is the point of a compiler with type checking?

The type cast is necessary here because re_comp's return type is wrong.

> Anyhow, whoever makes a decision and updates GNULIB, please drop me a
> line so I may update CVS.

Paul Eggert has fixed gnulib's regex.c on 2004-10-04.

Bruno