bug#23758: 25.1.50; Bogus warning from -Wwrite-strings

[Noam Postavsky]

On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> wrote:
> I'm getting an "assignment discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer
> target type" warning in the Cygwin-w32 build because of the following
> code in w32fns.c:
>
> char *type_CtrlAlt = NULL;
> [...]
> type_CtrlAlt = "bB";
>
> This warning goes away if I remove -Wwrite-strings from the enabled compiler
> warnings.  Is this a compiler bug, or is there really something wrong with
> the code above that should warrant a warning?

I think the warning is correct, and the code shoud use const char *type_CtrlAlt