Re: small patches submitted to savannah patch tracker

[Paul Smith]

On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 20:32 +0300, Ozkan Sezer wrote:
> Hi:  I submitted several small patches to savannah patch
> tracker.  That tracker looks like not being visited much,
> so I thought that a notification here wouldn't hurt.
> 
> 
> [patch #7240] cast const pointers to void* when feeding them to
> free(), qsort() or realloc()
> http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?7240

We're not passing const pointers to free(), qsort(), or realloc(); that
would be illegal.  We're passing pointers to const pointers (very
different!)  It's unpleasant that the MSVC compiler requires these to be
cast :-/.

> [patch #7241] check for strncasecmp and its replacements in configury
> http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?7241
> 
> [patch #7242] minor warning fixes for getopt.c
> http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?7242
> 
> [patch #7243] small windows fixes
> http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?7243

Thanks Ozkan.  Actually all patches (and bugs) submitted to Savannah are
automatically emailed to the bug-make mailing list (if you subscribe,
you'll see them ;-)) so we did get notification of them.

I generally let Eli look after the Windows-specific bugs, although I did
fix the DOS batchfile myself.  I'll take a look at these though.

The getopt changes are problematic because I actually retrieve the
source for that from the GNU libc project.

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