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From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org,  gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: bfd_get_filename
Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2019 18:17:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878sqx9vx2.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190906132914.GJ30165@bubble.grove.modra.org> (Alan Modra's	message of "Fri, 6 Sep 2019 22:59:14 +0930")

>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> writes:

Alan> This macro says:
Alan> /* Cast from const char * to char * so that caller can assign to
Alan>    a char * without a warning.  */

Alan> I reckon that isn't such a good idea since it can result in char*
Alan> variables where const char* is appropriate.  Not very many places
Alan> need the char* cast.  Applying to gdb as obvious.

Thanks for doing this.  I came up with a couple of follow-up patches to
remove some of the casts.  I'll send those soon.

Tom

      reply	other threads:[~2019-09-09 18:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-06 13:29 bfd_get_filename Alan Modra
2019-09-09 18:17 ` Tom Tromey [this message]

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