Re: [ft-devel] bug fix: pointers in FT_Open_Args should be const

[Antoine Leca]

Graham Asher wrote:
> Casting from non-const to const is always legal, I believe, so I
> don't see how this can break compatibility.

It is a struct, not a function prototype.

So if your (= client) code manipulates such things, perhaps storing them,
committing the change may make the code now stores a not-const-decorated
pointer (from earlier API) to a const*... Definitively something compilers
do not like!


Antoine