Re: [xml] AIX 4.3.2 compile error with 2.4.2

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

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.

    -- Darin