Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <412A3A90.8020904@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 14:42:24 -0400 From: Jeff Johnston User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: newlib@sources.redhat.com Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: __const use instead of const in one place References: <20040819084216.GB11034@cygbert.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20040819084216.GB11034@cygbert.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 18 15:36, Peter Hinely wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>I noticed that __const is used in one and only one place in the header files. >> >>Line 76 of \user\include\sys\unistd.h >> >>char _EXFUN(*getpass, (__const char *__prompt)); >> >>That's the only place in all the header files. Shouldn't it be changed to const? > > > That's a newlib issue. I've redirected to the newlib mailing list. > > Corinna > A patch has just been checked in to make the getpass() prototype consistent with other function prototypes. -- Jeff J. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/