Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 21:43:38 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_linker.c src/sys/sys libkern.h src/sys/libkern index.c rindex.c Message-ID: <199912122143.VAA22157@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org> of "Fri, 10 Dec 1999 09:38:42 PST." <199912101738.JAA27421@freefall.freebsd.org>
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> peter 1999/12/10 09:38:42 PST
>
> Modified files:
> sys/kern kern_linker.c
> sys/sys libkern.h
> sys/libkern index.c rindex.c
> Log:
> Zap c_index() and c_rindex(). Bruce prefers these to implicitly convert
> a const into a non-const as they do in libc. I feel that defeating the
> type checking like that quite evil, but that's the way it is.
I think this is an evil inherited from the language... we really
need a
asconstaspassed char *
strchr(const char *, char);
etc.
> Revision Changes Path
> 1.40 +3 -3 src/sys/kern/kern_linker.c
> 1.20 +3 -5 src/sys/sys/libkern.h
> 1.6 +11 -19 src/sys/libkern/index.c
> 1.7 +11 -22 src/sys/libkern/rindex.c
>
>
>
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