198772 - Warning of incompatible data type that will be a future error.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: XPCOM, defect)

Description

[Nils Hammar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 Version 1.3, attempted build under HP-UX with HP compilers/linkers

Building under HP-UX 11.00/32-bit results in the following warning, best
displayed with fixed-width font:

Error (future) 212: "nsNativeCharsetUtils.cpp", line 119 # Argument type 'const
char **' does not match expected parameter type 'char **'.
        res = iconv(converter, ICONV_INPUT(input), inputLeft, output, outputLeft
);
                               ^^^^^^^^^^^

Warning:        1 future errors were detected and ignored. Add a '+p' option to
detect and fix them before they become fatal errors in a future release. Behavio
r of this ill-formed program is not guaranteed to match that of a well-formed pr
ogram


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[hacker formerly known as [e-mail]]

-> xpcom

Comment 2

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

MXR: nsNativeCharsetUtils.cpp | 1.18 |
{
 99 #include <iconv.h>    // iconv_open, iconv, iconv_close

102 #if defined(HAVE_ICONV_WITH_CONST_INPUT)
103 #define ICONV_INPUT(x) (x)
104 #else
105 #define ICONV_INPUT(x) ((char **)x)
106 #endif

125     res = iconv(converter, ICONV_INPUT(input), inputLeft, output, outputLeft);
}

Reporter:
Could you check (on your HP-UX)
1) What the |icon(...)| declaration is ?
2) If |HAVE_ICONV_WITH_CONST_INPUT| is defined or not ?

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 4

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

R.WontFix: no answer to comment 2, no apparent interest :-/