char* foo(const char*) standard functions

[Marc Glisse]

Hello,

while doing some tests for PR 1773 on solaris 8, I got 6 unexpected 
failures. 4 of them are assertion failures at execution in 
22_locale/time_put/put/wchar_t/, and I will try to investigate. Here I 
want to mention the other 2:

21_strings/c_strings/char/2.cc
21_strings/c_strings/wchar_t/2.cc

These tests check for the possibility to use functions like memchr to 
silently remove the "const" for some pointer types. This is possible in C, 
but I believe the C++ standard introduced overloaded versions of these 
functions precisely to introduce more const safety and prevent these 2 
files from compiling.

So what is the status of these 2 tests? Is it a gnu extension in order to 
have a better C compatibility? On solaris>=8, if __cplusplus has the right 
value, the functions have the standard c++ prototypes and it seems hard to 
correct them.

(I was surprised that abi_check did not fail, but I guess it simply does 
nothing on this platform, although it takes quite some time to do it)

-- 
Marc Glisse