#17 C++ problems: ugly typecast needed

[Anonymous]

The problem is very easy to describe:

There are many functions like

void SOME_FN (char *filename);

which do not work in C++ when called like

std::string s;
// ...
SOME_FN (s.c_str ());

but need

SOME_FN (const_cast <char *> (s.c_str ()));

because of the C++ const handling.

This should be very easy to fix by just adding const's
in the header and all source files (or better a define
named CONST which is defined as const when the
compiler supports it).

Ex:
void SOME_FN (const char *filename);

Normally fixing the allegro.h file would be enough (as
I did with many of those functions) but generates
warnings when compiling allegro, so the source files
have to be changed, too.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Please remove it. I solved the problem: I could not install
the 3.9.34 version (which does exactly that) because the
assembler of my djgpp package would not take it, but
thought I had 3.9.34 (I have the zipfile, but could not
install it). Please REMOVE THIS REPORT!