Kevin M. Kilbride wrote:
> Secondly, it not only warns about _stripping_ qualifiers, but, in
> direct violation of the standard, it also warns about the
> explicitly-permitted conversion of an unqualified pointer to a
> qualified one.
Actually, in playing with this further, I can see that it is the base
GCC compiler that emits this warning, not the -Wcast-qual option. This
is much worse. The warning cannot be suppressed, even though it is
warning about obviously permitted behavior. Even if the GNU people fix
it, all existing versions of the compiler will complain about it,
crippling the warnings facility and necessitating dependence upon bugged
behavior of their -Wcast-qual option to get code to compile
warnings-free. Really bad. Ironically, g++ does not suffer from this
problem.
-sigh-