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Re: color in subwindows
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Thomas Dickey |
Subject: |
Re: color in subwindows |
Date: |
Tue, 17 Jun 2003 14:58:17 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.3.28i |
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 12:41:53PM -0600, D. Stimits wrote:
> Fair enough. One argument (no pun intended) I'll add is that a "const
> char *" fmt argument does not violate a "char *" spec if the fmt
> argument is not modified. Tell me who to petition for the curses spec,
> and I'll start hounding them to make the non-modified arguments
I'm not sure - it doesn't seem to be a priority of anyone at X/Open.
> const...non-const pointers in this case are just bad practice that the
> older C code won't care about unless const warnings are turned on (and a
> specification should care about every warning). In any case, the ncurses
> man pages say fmt is a const, but the actual implementation is NOT a
> const due to redefinition of the <curses.h> header (the installed
> <curses.h> header is not the source of the non-const, and if the header
> were not redefined in the implementation to be non-const, things would
> be perfect).
It was NCURSES_CONST until
20021116
+ change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
(prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <address@hidden>,
but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
Perhaps you're still working from the 5.3 release w/o patches?
--
Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net
- color in subwindows, D. Stimits, 2003/06/16
- Re: color in subwindows, Thomas Dickey, 2003/06/16
- Re: color in subwindows, D. Stimits, 2003/06/16
- Re: color in subwindows, Thomas Dickey, 2003/06/16
- Re: color in subwindows, D. Stimits, 2003/06/16
- Re: color in subwindows, Thomas Dickey, 2003/06/17
- Re: color in subwindows, Thomas Dickey, 2003/06/17
- Re: color in subwindows, D. Stimits, 2003/06/17
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- Re: color in subwindows, D. Stimits, 2003/06/17
- patch versions [Was: Re: color in subwindows], D. Stimits, 2003/06/17
- Re: patch versions [Was: Re: color in subwindows], D. Stimits, 2003/06/17
- Re: patch versions [Was: Re: color in subwindows], Thomas Dickey, 2003/06/17
- Re: patch versions [Was: Re: color in subwindows], D. Stimits, 2003/06/17
- Re: patch versions [Was: Re: color in subwindows], Thomas Dickey, 2003/06/17
- Re: patch versions [Was: Re: color in subwindows], Thomas Dickey, 2003/06/17
- Re: color in subwindows, Thomas Dickey, 2003/06/17
- Re: color in subwindows, D. Stimits, 2003/06/17