Re: iconv(3) and POSIX

[uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost (Valeriy E. Ushakov)]

Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> wrote:

> In /usr/include/iconv.h, the second argument to iconv() is declared
> const.  However, POSIX says that it isn't:
> 
>  http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iconv.html
> 
> and this causes git to declare OLD_ICONV for NetBSD. 

And why is that bad?


> The man page says that these conform to 1003.1-2001, and don't mention
> noncompliance with -2008.  I didn't find the 2001 version, but 2004 and
> 2008 both do not have const.
> 
> So is this as bug to fix in the prototype?   Or if not, how should the
> manpage be changed?

Const-vs-not of iconv source buffer has a long history by now and it's
not the first time the question is brought up.  Have you gone through
the archives?

-uwe