Re: [xml] AIX 4.3.2 compile error with 2.4.2

[xml thewrittenword com]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 03:12:35PM -0700, Darin Adler wrote:
> On Thursday, August 16, 2001, at 12:32  PM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 02:22:15PM -0500, xml thewrittenword com wrote:
> > > > Is this valid C89 code? I passed this through GCC 2.95.3 and 3.0 with
> > > > -ansi -pedantic and it worked.
> > >
> > > BTW, IRIX cc gives:
> > >
> > > cc-3303 cc: WARNING File = ./include/libxml/HTMLparser.h, Line = 61
> > >   A type qualifier on a return type is meaningless.
> >
> >   Meaningful to me and gcc:
> >     the function returns a pointer to an immutable memory region,
> > warn if it is affected.
>
> A pointer to an immutable memory region would be "const htmlEntityDesc *", 
> and there would be no warning. What you have there now, "const 
> htmlElemDescPtr", gives you an immutable pointer to a mutable memory 
> region -- it's equivalent to "htmlEntityDesc * const", and it is 
> meaningless for a return type.

I tried this and the IBM C compiler accepted it. Thanks!

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albert chin (china thewrittenword com)