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On Thursday 17 November 2011 18:43:33 Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Carlos O'Donell wrote: > > Specifying the function using "const char* const argv[]" as you > > suggest would break existing code by requiring a cast and still > > doesn't specify exactly what is intended by the interface and which > > can't be expressed in C anyway. > > Indeed, a proper fix would be for some future revision of the C > standard to allow implicit conversion from "char **" to "const char * > const *", like C++ already does. indeed. the forced casting from non-const to const is f**kin obnoxious. -mike
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