Re: [PATCH] Cast &cp to eliminate a compile-time warning on FreeBSD 8-STABLE.

From: James P. Howard, II <jh@jameshoward.us>
Date: Dec 5, 2009, 23:03 UTC
Message-ID: <20091205230350.GA3810@thermopylae.local>
In-Reply-To: <20091205161405.GA9272@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 11:14:05AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:

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> On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 06:12:02PM -0500, James P. Howard, II wrote:
> 
> > --- a/utf8.c
> > +++ b/utf8.c
> > @@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ char *reencode_string(const char *in, const char *out_encoding, const char *in_e
> >  	cp = (iconv_ibp)in;
> >  
> >  	while (1) {
> > -		size_t cnt = iconv(conv, &cp, &insz, &outpos, &outsz);
> > +		size_t cnt = iconv(conv, (const char **)&cp, &insz, &outpos, &outsz);
> >  
> >  		if (cnt == -1) {
> >  			size_t sofar;
> 
> Aren't you now introducing a warning for all of the other platforms
> which take a "char **"? Should you instead just be building with
> OLD_ICONV=Yes on your platform? See commit fd547a9 for details.

Yes, and it was brought to my attention within 10 minutes of my first post.

James

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James P. Howard, II, MPA MBCS
jh@jameshoward.us