[PD] pd-extended build on 9.10 /gem 0.92.1 eeepc = no luck with v4l2

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, zmoelnig at iem.at wrote:

> this is the code: static lqt_file_type_t guess_qtformat(const char* 
> filename) { char * extension = strrchr(filename, '.'); }
> which means: that we expect strrchr() to take "const char*" and "int", and to 
> return "char*"
> "man strrchr" says:
> char *strrchr(const char *s, int c);
> i don't see any problems here. what is it, that i am missing?

Ok, I made a mistake, I thought I remembered strrchr returned const char 
*. This is what your compiler is assuming, because what it reports about 
is a cast from const to non-const, which is what your error message is 
about.

What happens is that you are using the (new) C++ headers, which doesn't 
have the above declaration as in the manpage, and instead is using the 
following declarations (for covariant constness: so that the return type 
is exactly like the 1st argument):

   const char * strchr ( const char * str, int character );
         char * strchr (       char * str, int character );

(from #include <strchr>)

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