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Re: const char * -> char *

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Hornstein)
Tue Oct 28 14:36:43 1997

To: Ezra Peisach <epeisach@MIT.EDU>
Cc: krbdev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 Oct 1997 08:42:28 EST."
             <9710281342.AA15547@kangaroo.mit.edu> 
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 14:34:25 -0500
From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>

>Hmm - is it a fatal compiler error? If so, a configure test 
>could be written to test for the "broken" header file - and 
>if so, perform the cast....

Yeah, it's a fatal error (I wouldn't have asked about a warning :-) ).

Hmm, you know, I guess building with a "strict" ANSI compiler is
a real test, because I am seeing this same error in the GSS-API library
for gss_OID_desc * vs const gss_OID_desc *. :-/

--Ken

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