Re: strerror return value

[Gavin Smith]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 02:24:15PM +0200, Philipp Klaus Krause wrote:
> This is just a very minor issue.
> 
> texinfo contains two calls to strerror where the result is used to
> initialize or assign to a char *. However, according to the strerror
> specification, the string returned by strerror should never be changed,
> so I think it would be better to use const char * instead.
> 
> Besides these two, there are further such calls in texinfo via in
> gnulib. I guess texinfo doesn't want to diverge from the gnulib version
> that was once pulled in over this issue (and upstream gnulib has fixed
> them by now anyway, so the problematic use in texinfo will disappear by
> itself sometime a newer gnulib is pulled in).

Thank you, applied.