Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 19:08:35 +0000 (UTC) From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: converters/iconv versioning Message-ID: <slrnmg91pj.2n6s.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> References: <54FF75A2.4020803@gmail.com> <CAOc73CAGxtx%2B2P-c4aX3E_PidZ7ThW85zni1_cvgutqhzfYQrw@mail.gmail.com> <54FF8A19.3090700@gmail.com>
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On 2015-03-11, Scott Furry <scott.wl.furry@gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay...different iconv. But what's the reason for change?
> And does this one function call really need to be const? Is the
> __restrict in the type not used on FreeBSD?
>
> Seems strange to differ on a gnu-based.
POSIX says:
size_t iconv(iconv_t cd, char **restrict inbuf,
size_t *restrict inbytesleft, char **restrict outbuf,
size_t *restrict outbytesleft);
For GNU iconv, whether you have a const in the prototype or not is
configurable. I think by default it tries to match the prototype
of an existing iconv on the machine. The FreeBSD port specifically
asks for the const, presumably for consistency with earlier versions.
--
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
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