[bug-gnulib] Re: [PATCH]: fix warning in the hash module

[Jim Meyering]

Yoann Vandoorselaere <address@hidden> wrote:
> This patch fix constness warning in the GnuLib hash module.

I'm all for avoiding warnings, but not when it detracts from what I
think of as the correctness of an interface, as it would in this case.

Those `const void *entry' parameters constitute a promise
by the hash module that it will not try to write through
those pointers.  Removing `const' here might make users of
these functions wonder whether the functions write through
the void pointers.

Thanks anyway.