Subject: bug#77840: [bug-diffutils] bug#77840: Testing diffutils 3.12 on PPC Mac OS X 10.4.11, Tiger, produces so many failures

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2025 15:05:40 -0700

On 2025-06-20 03:01, Peter Dyballa wrote:
> To me "char const *const *" is not the same as "char const *" – could be for PPC Mac OS X 10.4.11 too? I do not understand these code differences anyway.

Correct. Read the types right to left. The former is a pointer to a 
constant pointer to a constant char. The latter is a pointer to a 
constant char. If you have an expression P of the former type, then *P 
has the latter type.