pointers vs arrays

Marc Glisse marc.glisse at inria.fr
Fri Jun 11 10:21:16 UTC 2021


On Fri, 11 Jun 2021, Emmanuel Thomé wrote:

> 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.

Ah, I didn't go far enough back to see that.

Niels, is enough of this text yours that we don't need an assignment from 
Emmanuel? Do you want to commit it yourself, or would you rather I do it?

> 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.

-- 
Marc Glisse


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