Re: [bug-mailutils] Const craziness.

[Jeff Bailey]

On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 03:47, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> Jeff Bailey <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> >   name = strdup (path);
> >   free (url->name);
> >   url->name = name;
> > 
> > I suspect those last three lines are best wrapped in a function that's
> > supposed to see url internals without the constness, but I want to make
> > sure before I touch the code.
> 
> I guess you mean something like url_set_name (url_t, const char *),
> right? It is a good idea, though I am not sure whether it is
> worth while: functions in */url.c are supposed to fiddle with url_t
> internals anyway.

The problem is that right now, "url->name = name" causes the compiler to
complain a little - name is const, and url->name is not.

The other easy possibility is to have a second variable, char *newname;
to hold this for those couple of lines.

Tks,
Jeff Bailey

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