Subject: Re: __const use instead of const in one place
From: Jeff Johnston <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 14:42:24 -0400

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 18 15:36, Peter Hinely wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I noticed that __const is used in one and only one place in the header files.  
>>
>>Line 76 of \user\include\sys\unistd.h
>>
>>char 	_EXFUN(*getpass, (__const char *__prompt));
>>
>>That's the only place in all the header files.  Shouldn't it be changed to const?  
> 
> 
> That's a newlib issue.  I've redirected to the newlib mailing list.
> 
> Corinna
>

A patch has just been checked in to make the getpass() prototype consistent with 
other function prototypes.

-- Jeff J.

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