inconsistent 'const' in exec{l,v}.

[Mike Frysinger]

On Thursday 17 November 2011 18:43:33 Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> > Specifying the function using "const char* const argv[]" as you
> > suggest would break existing code by requiring a cast and still
> > doesn't specify exactly what is intended by the interface and which
> > can't be expressed in C anyway.
> 
> Indeed, a proper fix would be for some future revision of the C
> standard to allow implicit conversion from "char **" to "const char *
> const *", like C++ already does.

indeed.  the forced casting from non-const to const is f**kin obnoxious.
-mike
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