From:	"Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
To:	"DJGPP-Workers" <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	Hmmph - how do you cast away const in our libc?
Date:	Mon, 18 Jun 2001 19:16:49 +0200
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How the smeg do you cast away const with the current
compilation flags?
My unsetenv() calls putenv() to do the actual unsetting.
unsetenv() is supposed to take a const char*; putenv has
been changed in the new Posix spec to take a non-const
char*.  Obviously, this generated a warning - but so does
adding a cast.  Is there a way around this, or do I need
to pass a copy of the string to putenv()? This would,
admittedly, be more robust to changes in putenv(), but
also introduces a (slight) overhead.

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