[hurd,commited] hurd sendmsg: Fix warning on calling CMSG_*HDR
Samuel Thibault
samuel.thibault@gnu.org
Sun Dec 29 17:21:00 GMT 2019
Andreas Schwab, le dim. 29 déc. 2019 18:12:02 +0100, a ecrit:
> > - for (; cmsg; cmsg = CMSG_NXTHDR (message, cmsg))
> > + for (; cmsg; cmsg = CMSG_NXTHDR ((struct msghdr *) message, cmsg))
>
> Why is the first argument of __cmsg_nxthdr not const?
I don't know, it is so on other systems as well.
I guess an issue is that if it was const, CMSG_NXTHDR would only
be allowed to return a const, and the caller might actually want a
non-const (and it passed a non-const). So it'd be a choice between
cast-parameter vs cast-returned-value.
Samuel
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