RE: [UM1-coders] interface.c

[Peter C. <pet...@ne...>]

> From: Adrian St. John [mailto:AS...@pa...]
> When I get a chance, I'll run the source through lint here (I have one
> that deals with C++)

Cool!  What is it, and is it generally available?

> > The rest of the changes are the creation of a tmpstring which is
> > used when calling tigetnum (and friends) which insist on a char *
> > and not a const char *.  Again, I believe this is safe, but I
> > don't tend to mess with strcpy or malloc, so I am quite prepared to
> > believe that it is wrong.  Also, whilst I know that it is the
> > terminal handling code, I am not sure how to test it.
> 
> Ah, that one. My personal preference would be to take the programmer
> who wrote those functions out to a wall and shoot them.

Do all the platforms we use have C++ compilers that can cope with
const_cast<char *>(str)?

		- Peter