Re: [PATCH] apr_hash_this_{key,klen,val}

[William A. Rowe Jr.]

On 3/12/2010 5:21 AM, Greg Stein wrote:
> 
> It is *totally* fine to add a 'const' to a parameter that was not
> there before. That does not change the ABI whatsoever, and it will not
> break the API for callers. It merely gives them more information at
> compile time.

int oldfunc (const char *result);

int brokefunc ()
{
    char *res = oldfunc();
}

doesn't compile on a single platform I know of.

Your statement makes no sense; how does adding const'ness to char *result
not come with source code level compatibility breakage?