GNU bug report logs - #77840
Testing diffutils 3.12 on PPC Mac OS X 10.4.11, Tiger, produces so many failures

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Package: diffutils;

Reported by: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Web.DE>

Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 10:55:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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Message #125 received at 77840 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Web.DE>
Cc: 77840 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug-diffutils] bug#77840: Testing diffutils 3.12 on PPC Mac OS X
 10.4.11, Tiger, produces so many failures
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2025 00:55:50 -0700
On 2025-06-21 00:52, Peter Dyballa wrote:
>> Am 21.06.2025 um 00:05 schrieb Paul Eggert<eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>:
>>
>> 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.
> And that's alright?

I expect it's intended, yes. I haven't looked at it carefully recently.




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