reassign 118752 manpages-dev thanks > According to UNIX98, the second argument to iconv(3) is a const char**, > but iconv.h and the man page both indicate that the argument is in > fact not const, despite the "Conforming to UNIX98" claim in the > man page.
> /usr/include/iconv.h (and manpage): > > extern size_t iconv (iconv_t __cd, char **__restrict __inbuf, > size_t *__restrict __inbytesleft, > char **__restrict __outbuf, > size_t *__restrict __outbytesleft); > > spec: > > size_t iconv(iconv_t cd, const char **inbuf, size_t *inbytesleft, > char **outbuf, size_t *outbytesleft); > > Note constness of inbuf; this is causing warnings in lots of > programs. According to the newer standard SUSv3, prototype iconv(3) is: #include <iconv.h> size_t iconv(iconv_t cd, char **restrict inbuf, size_t *restrict inbytesleft, char **restrict outbuf, size_t *restrict outbytesleft); This is manpages bug. I reassign it to manpages-dev. Regards, -- gotom