bug#23758: 25.1.50; Bogus warning from -Wwrite-strings

[Ken Brown]

On 6/12/2016 4:01 PM, Noam Postavsky wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> wrote:
> > I'm getting an "assignment discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer
> > target type" warning in the Cygwin-w32 build because of the following
> > code in w32fns.c:
> >
> > char *type_CtrlAlt = NULL;
> > [...]
> > type_CtrlAlt = "bB";
> >
> > This warning goes away if I remove -Wwrite-strings from the enabled compiler
> > warnings.  Is this a compiler bug, or is there really something wrong with
> > the code above that should warrant a warning?
>
> I think the warning is correct, and the code shoud use const char *type_CtrlAlt

Thank you.  I was confused by the wording of the warning, but now I 
understand the issue.

Closing.

Ken