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Re: [PATCH] C compatiblity fixes for the configure script (incompatible-pointer-types)

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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] C compatiblity fixes for the configure script (incompatible-pointer-types)
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2023 09:51:27 +0100
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In-reply-to: <CAH+w=7Z+eprKOYQG8NiHgXcuKvs1b7CPvC35Ja8V20Z5i6gHLA@mail.gmail.com> (Bart Schaefer's message of "Sat, 9 Dec 2023 09:12:52 -0800")
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* Bart Schaefer:

> On Fri, Dec 8, 2023 at 12:58 PM Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Avoid incompatible pointer types in terminfo global variable checks.
>
> For the record, the incompatibility seems to be that ncurses now
> declares these as arrays of const pointer to const char.

I haven't investigated whether this is a recent ncurses changes.  Until
recently, all free software compilers issued only a warning for this
type error, so it's the compilers that are changing.  Not necessarily
ncurses.

Thanks,
Florian

References:
- [PATCH] C compatiblity fixes for the configure script (incompatible-pointer-types)
  - From: Florian Weimer
- Re: [PATCH] C compatiblity fixes for the configure script (incompatible-pointer-types)
  - From: Bart Schaefer

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