From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Noam Postavsky Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#23758: 25.1.50; Bogus warning from -Wwrite-strings Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 16:01:15 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83ef94f9-6034-6ac3-c9f8-ecb5793afc02@cornell.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1465761746 2704 80.91.229.3 (12 Jun 2016 20:02:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 20:02:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 23758@debbugs.gnu.org To: Ken Brown Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 12 22:02:16 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bCBaK-0000Fa-Gb for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2016 22:02:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52555 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bCBaG-0006oZ-Gx for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-transfer-encoding; bh=AtsUPDECqQukgjR2BB0Vzv4Hnsw4hV751X8GMg1/wFE=; b=TURxBc+rwAuUIl60JGkfAK2nScXSkFu62Nk8M5Yo1iZEUSfwA1pHARybVHewztZhSs znClObIIrFLGz2gCaUKN4nVzSwxoeba0EP2QLDC7lfx0ST6XbH2DciOcGtCtAVFXECjQ s99cL1x6GJZvyBl1NHZweLqTeTtUNMUjwJ/KRx8KIzhgd6aZhlcBO+wR2t8At6sI8Y0T Gc+Z5VfiP6/T6A8mnCGoXVGxW3Xx0oXI6MLOGT1psqCc0WS8WHmTLfDYrR8h8s+8eiwe ZrjLEzsdYoohASutbioUmhaiW7P50xG2chO4UGEwm+8DXXtlhLmS1+TTNeaNVEq1GAUU I3Rg== X-Gm-Message-State: ALyK8tI/gK9sQh5YCADHZCWLIRKkTBO00D3yQZcmbqx1dUKIFvJ/p57+YN5YS9hQimzSAbzUwu4qS2aGFAGQaw== X-Received: by 10.157.1.107 with SMTP id 98mr6142058otu.17.1465761675934; Sun, 12 Jun 2016 13:01:15 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.157.5.168 with HTTP; Sun, 12 Jun 2016 13:01:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <83ef94f9-6034-6ac3-c9f8-ecb5793afc02@cornell.edu> X-Google-Sender-Auth: LApcLYBY93Pzw2mMmKLXOgDgmr0 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:119468 Archived-At: On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > I'm getting an "assignment discards =E2=80=98const=E2=80=99 qualifier fro= m pointer > target type" warning in the Cygwin-w32 build because of the following > code in w32fns.c: > > char *type_CtrlAlt =3D NULL; > [...] > type_CtrlAlt =3D "bB"; > > This warning goes away if I remove -Wwrite-strings from the enabled compi= ler > warnings. Is this a compiler bug, or is there really something wrong wit= h > the code above that should warrant a warning? I think the warning is correct, and the code shoud use const char *type_Ctr= lAlt