Re: [PATCH] apr_getopt_long interface update and interleaving support

Greg Stein wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 06:46:25PM -0500, Greg Hudson wrote:
>
>> ...
>> - char *const *argv;
>> + char **argv;
>
>
> Um. I don't think we can do this with argv. I'm surprised that it isn't
> "const char * const * argv".
>
> Certainly, if we make a copy of the array (of pointers), then we could have
> "const char **argv" and that would allow us to permute.

If this pointer is supposed to be passed from main (which I guess it
is), then you can't do that. Main's second argument must be "char
*argv[]", and you can't convert that implicitly to "const char *const
*argv" ; that would change the pointer's type.

So the change is fine.

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