printw: const char*

[Pedro Palhoto Matos]

Hello,

I'm developing a program with ncurses and I am in the middle of checking 
everything I can via the compiler, through its warnings and I have 
stummbled on a feature or a bug of ncurses that I'm not sure why it is so.

The printw is declared as printw(char *fmt...); and in the curs_printw 
man page, it refers to printw as being analogous to printf.

As I compiled with the -Wwrite-strings option in gcc, I have got the 
warning "passing arg 1 of `printw' discards qualifiers from pointer 
target type". This doesn't happen to the printf function, because the 
first argument is const char *.

Is there any particular reason for this? Does printw alter the string?

Thank you,

Pedro Matos