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

[Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>]

On 02/21/2005 01:56:38 AM, 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.

Your compiler does it just fine! It was a real bug. Coincidentally, I  
have commited equivalent patch yesterday :).

Pawel