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

[Kacper Wysocki <kacperw online no>]

On 02/20/05 20:55:45, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> On 02/20/2005 07:56:38 PM, Kacper Wysocki wrote:
> > 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!

I thought const fields indicated that the field wouldn't be reassinged?  
Or do you use 'const' here to mean that it's a pointer to a character  
constant?

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