On Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 03:15:00PM +0100, Rene Kita wrote:
I silenced all warnings on Arch by casting just to get a list of places
where the error did occur. So the following is not meant as a solution,
but as a list of other places we might have the same problem:

The browser.c fix was more serious, so I fixed it in stable and merged
into master already.

For the other warnings, I've cleaned them up as follows. (Will clean up commit message and commit later tonight, so please comment if you have feedback).

I prefer not to add the casts, so instead I've disentangled shared usage and retyped the pointers to const char * where possible.

From 2e4bd26cbc1938ba31870e7af489d771e9f29070 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Kevin J. McCarthy" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:36:04 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] wip.

---
 mh.c      |  6 ++++--
 muttlib.c |  3 ++-
 parse.c   |  4 ++--
 rfc1524.c |  7 ++++---
 sendlib.c |  3 ++-
 url.c     | 10 ++++++----
 6 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mh.c b/mh.c
index 4c4c9695..40115db2 100644
--- a/mh.c
+++ b/mh.c
@@ -684,7 +684,8 @@ static void maildir_free_maildir (struct maildir **md)
static void maildir_parse_flags (HEADER * h, const char *path)
 {
-  char *p, *q = NULL;
+  const char *p;
+  char *q = NULL;
h->flagged = 0;
   h->read = 0;
@@ -2117,7 +2118,8 @@ err:
static void maildir_canon_filename (BUFFER *dest, const char *src)
 {
-  char *t, *u;
+  const char *t;
+  char *u;
if ((t = strrchr (src, '/')))
     src = t + 1;
diff --git a/muttlib.c b/muttlib.c
index 18f3ebf0..d0459bb2 100644
--- a/muttlib.c
+++ b/muttlib.c
@@ -510,7 +510,8 @@ void _mutt_buffer_expand_path (BUFFER *src, int flags)
         else
         {
           struct passwd *pw;
-          if ((t = strchr (s + 1, '/')))
+          /* NB: this is temporarily modify src but is restoring it below */
+          if ((t = strchr (src->data + 1, '/')))
             *t = 0;
if ((pw = getpwnam (s + 1)))
diff --git a/parse.c b/parse.c
index 141947f4..6bce009b 100644
--- a/parse.c
+++ b/parse.c
@@ -825,7 +825,7 @@ BODY *mutt_parse_multipart (FILE *fp, const char *boundary, 
LOFF_T end_off, int
static const char *uncomment_timezone (char *buf, size_t buflen, const char *tz)
 {
-  char *p;
+  const char *p;
   size_t len;
if (*tz != '(')
@@ -1001,7 +1001,7 @@ time_t mutt_parse_date (const char *s, HEADER *h)
         {
           struct tz_t *tz;
- tz = bsearch (ptz, TimeZones, sizeof TimeZones/sizeof (struct tz_t),
+          tz = (struct tz_t *)bsearch (ptz, TimeZones, sizeof TimeZones/sizeof 
(struct tz_t),
                         sizeof (struct tz_t),
                         (int (*)(const void *, const void *)) ascii_strcasecmp
                         /* This is safe to do: A pointer to a struct equals
diff --git a/rfc1524.c b/rfc1524.c
index 273614b1..758e380a 100644
--- a/rfc1524.c
+++ b/rfc1524.c
@@ -208,6 +208,7 @@ static int rfc1524_mailcap_parse (BODY *a,
   FILE *fp;
   char *buf = NULL;
   size_t buflen;
+  const char *typeslash;
   char *ch;
   char *field;
   int found = FALSE;
@@ -230,9 +231,9 @@ static int rfc1524_mailcap_parse (BODY *a,
    */
/* find length of basetype */
-  if ((ch = strchr (type, '/')) == NULL)
+  if ((typeslash = strchr (type, '/')) == NULL)
     return FALSE;
-  btlen = ch - type;
+  btlen = typeslash - type;
if ((fp = fopen (filename, "r")) != NULL)
   {
@@ -499,7 +500,7 @@ void mutt_rfc1524_expand_filename (const char *nametemplate,
                                    BUFFER *newfile)
 {
   int i, j, k, ps;
-  char *s;
+  const char *s;
   short lmatch = 0, rmatch = 0;
   BUFFER *left = NULL;
   BUFFER *right = NULL;
diff --git a/sendlib.c b/sendlib.c
index f0e34d99..a700d500 100644
--- a/sendlib.c
+++ b/sendlib.c
@@ -2100,7 +2100,8 @@ static int write_one_header (FILE *fp, int pfxw, int max, 
int wraplen,
                              const char *pfx, const char *start, const char 
*end,
                              int flags)
 {
-  char *tagbuf, *valbuf, *t;
+  char *tagbuf, *valbuf;
+  const char *t;
   int is_from = ((end - start) > 5 &&
                  ascii_strncasecmp (start, "from ", 5) == 0);
diff --git a/url.c b/url.c
index c1578f42..dfe8bff7 100644
--- a/url.c
+++ b/url.c
@@ -78,7 +78,8 @@ static int url_pct_decode (char *s)
 url_scheme_t url_check_scheme (const char *s)
 {
   char sbuf[STRING];
-  char *t;
+  const char *t;
+  char *sbufp;
   int i;
if (!s || !(t = strchr (s, ':')))
@@ -87,8 +88,8 @@ url_scheme_t url_check_scheme (const char *s)
     return U_UNKNOWN;
strfcpy (sbuf, s, t - s + 1);
-  for (t = sbuf; *t; t++)
-    *t = ascii_tolower (*t);
+  for (sbufp = sbuf; *sbufp; sbufp++)
+    *sbufp = ascii_tolower (*sbufp);
if ((i = mutt_getvaluebyname (sbuf, UrlMap)) == -1)
     return U_UNKNOWN;
@@ -292,7 +293,8 @@ static int url_mailto_header_allowed (const char *header)
int url_parse_mailto (ENVELOPE *e, char **body, const char *src)
 {
-  char *t, *p;
+  const char *t;
+  char *p;
   char *tmp;
   char *headers;
   char *tag, *value;
--
2.53.0

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