[Unbound-users] passing string literals in C++

[W.C.A. Wijngaards]

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Hi Karel,

Thanks for the patch.  I wanted the initial header file to use the
least language constructs as these give rise to portability and
parsing issues (such as types, 'pid_t').  This is why all the numbers
are passed as 'int'.  const seems to be 'C99' and posix :-)

Best regards,
   Wouter

On 06/17/2013 05:40 PM, Karel Slany wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've recently bumped into lots of annoying messages about
> deprecated conversion from string constant to 'char*' when I was
> using libunbound with C++.
> 
> Apparently, functions in <unbound.h> can safely handle const char* 
> parameters, but they are declared and defined to take char*. This 
> represents no problem in C. But in C++ string literals are
> considered const char*.
> 
> If there is no reason for declaring those functions with char*
> arguments I would suggest to change the function prototypes to take
> const char* arguments. The suggested patch is in the attachment.
> 
> Best regards, K.
> 
> 
> 
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