RE: [UM1-coders] interface.c

[Adrian S. J. <AS...@pa...>]

> From: Peter Crowther [mailto:pet...@ne...]
>
> > From: Adrian St. John [mailto:AS...@pa...]
> > When I get a chance, I'll run the source through lint here=20
> (I have one
> > that deals with C++)
>=20
> Cool!  What is it, and is it generally available?

It's Flex PC-Lint, and it is commercial. It is also available for UNIX
(as source code!), but that would cost lots of money for a licence.

>=20
> > > 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=20
> 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.
> >=20
> > Ah, that one. My personal preference would be to take the programmer
> > who wrote those functions out to a wall and shoot them.
>=20
> Do all the platforms we use have C++ compilers that can cope with
> const_cast<char *>(str)?

Given that all the platforms we use tend to be up to date, using g++,
I suspect so.

Adrian