libX11: fixing public headers?

Mon Apr 2 07:49:19 PDT 2007

Keith Packard wrote:
> On Sun, 2007年04月01日 at 11:50 +0200, Tilman Sauerbeck wrote:
>>> What does everyone think about adding "const" there?
>> C programs may end up generating extra warnings, but C++ programs may
> start to fail to compile.
>>> Can/should we do that?
>> I guess the question is what bugs we expect to uncover by eliciting
> additional compiler warnings and errors. If we expect these are being
> mis-used, it would be a good thing. However, if we just end up breaking
> a lot of otherwise correct code, it doesn't seem like a good plan.

I think adding const qualifiers to function parameters is generally 
safe. But adding a const qualifier to a returned pointer might cause 
problems, as Keith alluded to.
I'm big on const-correctness. Every once in a while it really saves 
your skin.
-Brian