Thanks for reporting that. Looks to me like someone just got
frustrated by 'const' without really understanding it, and put in a
'const' everywhere they could think of. (Sounds like some of my
students. :-)
I installed the following somewhat more-aggressive patch, which
removes eight uses of 'const' and two casts.
2006-06-22 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* glob.c (collated_compare): Remove 'const' uses that weren't needed.
Some compiler complained about some of them. Problem reported by
Larry Jones in
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2006-06/msg00172.html>.
--- glob.c 8 Mar 2006 01:37:15 -0000 1.5
+++ glob.c 22 Jun 2006 23:40:20 -0000 1.6
@@ -909,8 +909,8 @@ libc_hidden_def (globfree)
static int
collated_compare (const void *a, const void *b)
{
- const char *const s1 = *(const char *const * const) a;
- const char *const s2 = *(const char *const * const) b;
+ char *const *ps1 = a; char *s1 = *ps1;
+ char *const *ps2 = b; char *s2 = *ps2;
if (s1 == s2)
return 0;
