pointers vs arrays

Emmanuel Thomé Emmanuel.Thome at inria.fr
Fri Jun 11 08:56:46 UTC 2021


On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 03:02:25PM +0200, Marc Glisse wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jun 2021, Emmanuel Thomé wrote:
> 
> > And as it turns out, we even discussed that very documentation bit about
> > three years ago (here a link to an actual patch -- original discussion
> > was in may 2018).
> > 
> > https://gmplib.org/list-archives/gmp-devel/2019-January/005182.html
> 
> The description of mpq_numref is a bit misleading, it does not cast away
> constness (as opposed to say the C function strstr), but that's not new with
> your patch.
> 
> I assume that patch was covered by an assignment to the FSF?

First: a good share of the text is actually Niels's.

I haven't filled a copyright assignment, based on the idea that my
contribution is in the ballpark of trivial enough changes. But I don't
object to doing the paperwork if needed.

E.

> Would someone object if I applied that patch, after making sure it still
> compiles?
> 
> -- 
> Marc Glisse


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