Re: [PATCH] static const field reassigned in pop3.c

[Peter Bloomfield <peterbloomfield bellsouth net>]

On 02/20/2005 07:56:38 PM, Kacper Wysocki wrote:
> Cheers all,
>
> ever since the pop3s fix I've had trouble connecting to my  
> non-ssl pop3 accounts. I finally got around to debugging it.
>
> After a bit of figuring out, I discovered that my compiler (gcc  
> 3.3.5) doesn't reinitialize static fields on subsequent calls.  
> Not sure if that's ANSI C, didn't check. Either way, char  
> *service should probably not be a static const.
>
> Attached one-liner patch fixes the problem.

It certainly shouldn't be static--but it should probably still be  
const--committed as such--thanks for debugging that!

Peter