Suppress close to 400 warnings generated by gcc on the win/X11/*.c code,
most due to -Wwrite-strings which makes string literals implicitly have
the 'const' attribute. (Since modifying a string literal results in
undefined behavior, that is an appropriate check to have enabled, but
it can be troublesome since string literals have type 'char *' and code
that uses them that way is correct provided it avoids modifying them.)
113 warning: initialization discards qualifiers from pointer target type
127 warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type
29 warning: passing argument discards qualifiers from pointer target type
109 warning: unused parameter
12 warning: comparison between signed and unsigned
The nhStr() hack casts to 'char *', explicitly removing 'const', for
situations where it isn't feasible to make code directly honor const.
The vast marjority of uses are for the second parameter to XtSetArg(),
which is a macro that actually performs an assignment with the second
argument rather than passing it in a function. It takes values like
'XtNtop', which doesn't need to be altered (although in many places I
changed that to nhStr(XtNtop) for uniformity with the surrounding code,
and 'XtNbottom', which does need to have the extra const stripping to
avoid a warning. Go figure.
The nhUse() hack actually uses its argument in a meaningless way if the
code is compiled with FORCE_ARG_USAGE defined. When GCC_WARN is defined,
FORCE_ARG_USAGE will be enabled if it hasn't been already. Example:
/*ARGUSED*/
int foo(arg)
int arg; /* not used */
{
+ nhUse(arg);
return 0;
}
The extra line will expand to ';' when FORCE_ARG_USAGE is not defined
or too
nhUse_dummy += (unsigned)arg;
when it is. I figured direct assignment might lead to a different
warning by some compilers in a situation like
nhUse(arg);
nhUse(otherarg);
where the first assignment would be clobbered by the second, and using
bitwise operations or safer '+= (arg != 0)' would most likely generate
more non-useful code. Some tweaking might turn out to be necessary.
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