From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: GDB Discussion <gdb@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: char *lbasename(const char *) VS const char *lbasename() ...
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 12:47:00 -0000
Message-id: <3B2671D9.8070203@cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-06/msg00093.html

Hello,

libiberty recently added the function:

	char *lbasename (const char *name);

with semantics roughly equivalent to:

	return (char *) name;

I'm thinking (serious :-) of sending a patch to the maintainers (GCC 
list) asking that it changed to:

	const char *lbasename (const char *name);

so that the fact that the string was constant isn't lost across the call 
(If you're wondering, GDB will (once I've committed a recently posted 
patch) compile with -Werror against either function).

Does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions before I try and do this :-)

	Andrew