[Bug c/17654] Pointless warning on incompatible pointer types

["jsm at polyomino dot org dot uk" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>]

------- Additional Comments From jsm at polyomino dot org dot uk  2004-09-27 15:32 -------
Subject: Re:  Pointless warning on incompatible pointer types

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, jbeulich at novell dot com wrote:

> Thus I continue to believe that this is an omission on the part of the standard,
> and would hence want to see gcc provide at least an optional way to circumvent
> this problem.

That way at present is to use the C++ compiler, if you want the C++ 
const-correctness rules.  Such a change was proposed for C99 in 
<http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n754.htm>.  I do not know 
why it was not adopted although the impression I get is that it was 
proposed too late in the process and there wasn't enough time at the 
relevant meeting.  I would suggest it might be worth proposing such a 
change again when features for C1x are under consideration in some years' 
time; C++ provides the prior art.



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