Re: [tim-3] Improved DJGPP support in src/files.c

[Paul Eggert]

> From: Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
> Date: 17 Jan 2002 12:00:12 +0100
> 
> BTW, there is something that I would like very much: have two
> signatures for basename:
> 
> const char *basename_const (const char *name);
> 
> and
> 
> char *basename (const char *name);

I'm not sure that's a good idea.  Lots of C functions have this
problem (for example, strchr), and it seems a bit overkill to have two
copies of each one of them just to quiet a GCC warning.  I think I'd
rather just accept the extra cast as a deficiency of C and move on.