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Date:      Thu, 6 Sep 2001 21:23:49 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>, Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/su Makefile su.c
Message-ID:  <200109070423.f874Nnv16757@arch20m.dellroad.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010907015343.K32058-100000@alphplex.bde.org> "from Bruce Evans at Sep 7, 2001 02:19:18 am"

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Bruce Evans writes:
> This question is sort of backwards too.  You want to get const
> non-built-up stuff into a plain "char *".

What about..

    const char *foo = "foo";
    char *bar;

    *((const char **)&bar) = foo;

or even just

    (const char *)bar = foo;	/* gcc-ism? */

-Archie

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Archie Cobbs     *     Packet Design     *     http://www.packetdesign.com

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