[ On Monday, July 14, 2003 at 08:53:57 (-0700), Simon J. Gerraty wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: toolchain/22118: make won't compile with -Wcast-qual -Wstrict-prototypes and more
>
> But eventually you find youself needing to do  free(DECONST(pointer))
> at which point it all starts to seem silly ;-)

Obviously you can no more free const-qualified storage than you can
ignore its const qualifier and pass it to a function which might try to
modify or free it.

If a pointer passed to free() may ever have been derived from a string
constant then there's a very nasty bug lurking somewhere.

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