Re: [xml] Last compiler warnings (Windows)

[Aleksey Sanin <aleksey aleksey com>]

:) I got your point about differences in compilers/platforms/etc.
However, I can find a paragraph in ANSI C standard that describes
pointer->const pointer conversion (I remember I've seen it there) :)

Anyway, I have one more "API cleanup" request for the future: 
I think it's a good idea to make function names standard one day 
(not now, of course :) ). Because I still could not remember when
I need to put verb at the end and when not. For example, "xmlBufferFree"
but "xmlFreeNode" and so on.
May be there is a hidden logic here but I could not get it :)


Aleksey.




Igor Zlatkovic wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> > I don't think that changing the function declaration  from
> >     something(pointer p)
> > to
> >     something(const pointer p)
> > will create any warnings for applications simply because "const" here
> > tells the application that 'p' will not be changed in the function.
> > I absolutelly sure that it can remove some warnings but not add new ones.
> >     
>
> Sure. There is an implicit conversion from 'a' to 'const a' and it does not
> issue a warning. In theory. However, consider this example:
>
>   #include <stdio.h>
>   void main()
>   {
>     printf(__FILE__);
>   }
>
> Compile this with MSVC in some subdirectory, say C:\subdir.
>
>   C:\subdir>cl test.c
>   test.c
>   /out:test.exe
>   test.obj
>
> Okay, not run the executable, and it will print the name of it's file to
> stdout:
>
>   C:\subdir>test
>   test.c
>
> Now, go to the parent directory and run it from there:
>
>   C:\subdir>cd ..
>   C:\>subdir\test
>
> You think it will display the same as in the previous example? No. It will
> run the associated program (mostly the IDE) and load test.c into it! On my
> system the last command fired the notepad editor which presented itself with
> the contents of test.c, an act I would never have expected in my life. One
> must see it to believe.
>
> What I want to say with all this, you can never be sure that a particular
> compiler and OS implementation would follow the rules. GNOME desktop uses
> libxml and runs on dozen platforms, most of which I have never dealt with. I
> have no way of knowing how badly broken these can be and the last thing I
> would like to do is give a GNOME developer on some obscure platform a
> thousand new warnings, just for the sake of eliminating two on my platform.
> Not only he would throw darts on my picture, he would probably fashion a
> toilette modelled to represent my head, skull top open :-) :-)
>
> Okay, that was enough off-topic for today, sorry for any inconvenience. :-)
>
> Ciao
> Igor
>
>
>
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