[debbugs-tracker] bug#23758: closed (25.1.50; Bogus warning from -Wwrite-strings)

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regarding 25.1.50; Bogus warning from -Wwrite-strings
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> 25.1.50; Bogus warning from -Wwrite-strings
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> Sun, 12 Jun 2016 15:56:32 -0400
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> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.1
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> I'm getting an "assignment discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer
> target type" warning in the Cygwin-w32 build because of the following
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> char *type_CtrlAlt = NULL;
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> type_CtrlAlt = "bB";
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> 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?
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> In GNU Emacs 25.1.50.11 (x86_64-unknown-cygwin)
>  of 2016-06-12 built on moufang
> Repository revision: eacdc9eb6c89346fb72535632a1c65f6483b639f
> Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.10586
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> Configured using:
>  'configure 'CFLAGS=-g3 -O0' --with-w32'
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> Re: bug#23758: 25.1.50; Bogus warning from -Wwrite-strings
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> On 6/12/2016 4:01 PM, Noam Postavsky wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Ken Brown <address@hidden> 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:
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> > > char *type_CtrlAlt = NULL;
> > > [...]
> > > type_CtrlAlt = "bB";
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> > > 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?
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> > I think the warning is correct, and the code shoud use const char *type_CtrlAlt
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> Thank you.  I was confused by the wording of the warning, but now I 
> understand the issue.
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> Closing.
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> Ken
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