Re: CVS commit: src/sys/sys

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Dec 11,  7:00pm, yamt%mwd.biglobe.ne.jp@localhost (YAMAMOTO Takashi) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/sys

| > Module Name:        src
| > Committed By:       christos
| > Date:               Sat Dec 11 05:59:00 UTC 2004
| > 
| > Modified Files:
| >     src/sys/sys: cdefs.h
| > 
| > Log Message:
| > kill gcc specific version of __UNCONST. Does not work to unconst
| > const char *foo[];
| 
| what's a problem?
| foo is not a const pointer.

The following does not work:

        const char *foo[2];
        char **bar = (char **)__UNCONST(foo);

Also having 2 versions with slightly different semantics (they return
different types) just leads to confusion.

christos