Re: Getting rid of warnings

From: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Getting rid of warnings
Date: 2007-01-25 16:28:06
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On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 17:11 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> The header had:
> isort(int4 *a, const int len)
> and the code had
> isort(int4 *a, int len)

ISTM that the "const" keyword to an "int" function argument is
pointless, so the right fix is to remove the "const" from the
declaration in the header.

> Where does the ** part come in there? It's not even a pointer!

I believe Tom was just referencing that as an example of a
less-than-perfect compiler warning from VC++.

-Neil

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