Re: iconv() prototype

[Fumitoshi UKAI]

At 26 Feb 2001 18:11:05 +0100,
Andreas Jaeger wrote:

> > On address@hidden, Mr. Tajiri claims that iconv() prototype is 
> > wrong, it should be necessary to add const to inbuf.  That is, 
> > prototype of iconv() in iconv.h
> > 
> >  extern size_t iconv (iconv_t __cd, char **__restrict __inbuf,
> >                      size_t *__restrict __inbytesleft,
> >                      char **__restrict __outbuf,
> >                      size_t *__restrict __outbytesleft);
> > 
> > should be
> > 
> >  extern size_t iconv (iconv_t __cd, const char **__restrict __inbuf,
> >                      size_t *__restrict __inbytesleft,
> >                      char **__restrict __outbuf,
> >                      size_t *__restrict __outbytesleft);
> > 
> > 
> > As I checked `The Single UNIX Specification, Version 2' from The Open
> > Group, the latter is correct.  
> > 
> > Why does glibc declare as former?
> > Is there any reason for this?
> 
> This will be changed in the upcoming XPG6, glibc follows that change
> already.

Oh, I see.  

Thanks,
Fumitoshi UKAI