Re: [xml] AIX 4.3.2 compile error with 2.4.2

[xml thewrittenword com]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 03:32:05PM -0400, 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. 

So, the code is valid C? If so, then xlc on AIX has a bug. If not,
should the const be conditionalized around #ifdef __GNUC__?

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albert chin (china thewrittenword com)