Re: "discards qualifiers" is less helpful than "discards const"

["L. Peter Deutsch" <ghost at aladdin dot com>]

>> The new message is less helpful
> 
> But it is correct when the cast is discarding either const, volatile
> or both.

So is a message that simply says "error" and nothing else.  I didn't say the
message was incorrect, only that it is less helpful.

>> Please change this message back to the way it was.
> 
> If you post a patch that determines exactly which qualifiers are being
> discarded and prints them, it would probably be accepted.

I'm requesting that the maintainers of an extremely large and complex piece
of software with which I am totally unfamiliar make a simple change that
will restore it to the state that it was in relatively recently, a state
that any reasonable person would agree is more helpful to users.  As the
principal maintainer of a large and complex piece of free software myself
(Ghostscript), I would consider it unreasonable to expect a random user to
make such a change, and I would not ask a user to do so unless I knew from
extended contact that they were familiar with the code.  Please reconsider
your position.

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