> > Use const pointers everywhere.
> 
> That was the original plan, but you can't assign char** to char const** 
> under C typing.  I decided it's better to just keep them char** to avoid 
> having to either type cast the pointers in function arguments, or having 
> to rewrite surrounding typing.

Oh, char ** for result params of *_inc is OK.  But there are others IIRC.

> The one in dwarf_getpubnames is there because other return statements do 
> that, too, in the same function.  The function returns ptrdiff_t -- that 
> does have a size of long, doesn't it?

Ah, yes, it does.  Ok.
(It really doesn't hurt to use -1 there either, though.)


Thanks,
Rooland
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