klibc - Oct 2004 - [PATCH] fix fwrite declaration

fwrite() takes a const void *p, but stdio declares just a void *p.
Is there a reason for the difference?


diff -p -purN klibc-0.186/include/stdio.h klibc-0.186.fwrite/include/stdio.h
--- klibc-0.186/include/stdio.h	2004-07-28 23:09:59.000000000 +0200
+++ klibc-0.186.fwrite/include/stdio.h	2004-10-19 20:06:30.000000000 +0200
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ fread(void *__p, size_t __s, size_t __n,
 }
 
 extern __inline__ size_t
-fwrite(void *__p, size_t __s, size_t __n, FILE *__f)
+fwrite(const void *__p, size_t __s, size_t __n, FILE *__f)
 {
   return _fwrite(__p, __s*__n, __f)/__s;
 }
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Olaf Hering wrote:
> fwrite() takes a const void *p, but stdio declares just a void *p.
> Is there a reason for the difference?
> 
No, it's a bug in <stdio.h>.  const void * is the correct type.

	-hpa