cpplib and a couple others: squelch -pedantic warnings

[Zack Weinberg]

On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 09:11:01PM -0400, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:
>  > From: Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
>  > 
>  > >>>>> "Gabriel" == Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@codesourcery.com> writes:
>  > 
>  >     Jason> give up on -Wcast-qual.
>  > 
>  >     Gabriel> That is also my inclination.
>  > 
>  > I am happy to defer to your excellent judgement.
>  > --
>  > Mark Mitchell                   mark@codesourcery.com
>  > CodeSourcery, LLC               http://www.codesourcery.com
> 
> 
> Let's please not give up so easily.
> 
> Both Mark and Gabriel mentioned they'd like the ability to explicitly
> cast away const-ness without any warnings.  The following tiny patch
> allows you to write:
> 
>  > const char *foo;
>  > free (__extension__ (char *) foo);
> 
> without any warnings, even from -Wcast-qual.

Yuck!  I would rather put up with the warnings than write that.

zw