Re: code style in the vfs

[Leonard den Ottolander <leonard den ottolander nl>]

Hello Oswald,

On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 13:09, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> right, but it's the wrong place. change the return value to const char *
> and no compiler will warn about the bug.
> we want a warning at *slash = 0;

Explicitly casting the return type to char * would be a grave
programming mistake, and the coder would violate his own rules.

Even in the example below you will get a warning. Explicitly casting
path2 to char * is about as silly as the above.

char *dirname (const char *path)
{
     char *path2 = path;
     char *slash = strrchr (path2, '/');
     if (slash)
         *slash = '\0';
     return path2;
}

Leonard.

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