Re: [1/2] use const in time.h unit conversion functions

From: William Lee Irwin III
Date: Wed Jun 02 2004 - 13:56:58 EST


On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 01:43:35PM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> This is the second const-correctness patch I've seen in a couple days,
> and I'd like to point out that while it's a noble cause, retrofitting
> const decls onto interfaces is notorious for causing ripple effects in
> APIs.

There's a point to this one. A warning got tripped when const stuff was
passed to it in patch #2, hence this as a preparatory cleanup.


-- wli
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