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> So Joe's claim looks exactly right: passing a const char array to a
> function expecting a plain char array raises a warning; other combinations
> do not.  Granted that a cast will suppress this warning, but it will
> suppress almost every type warning in C (you can't cast a function pointer
> to something else, nor vice versa).

I'm convinced. It was me who didn't know how it worked; actually, I did
until I tried with a compiler claiming ANSI C conformance, got no warnings,
re-read the standard and was misled to think it should allow this usage.

David

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