Subject: Re: Commit: const_casts needed to get RH7 to compile
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Fri Nov 10 2000 - 18:03:33 CST
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 05:53:21PM +0100, Mike Nordell wrote:
> Sam about iconv and const:
> >Iconv actually configures that paramater via a configure.in test.
>
> Now, I might be *way* off, but is there really a compiler in use today that
> don't honor (or even _understand_) the "const" keyword?
>
> If this really is the case, perhaps it should be added as a note to the
> "compilers compatibility" page Sam maintains?
>
Oh it's much more interesting than that. My computer, when it runs that
configure script, doesn't think it should use const on my machine.
Needless to say, gcc 2.95.2 supports the const keyword. :-o
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