Type of argv parameter

[jibsen]

The rule that allows you to pass a pointer to a function that expects a const pointer is only applied at top level, so if you try to pass an argv declared in the standard way (char *argv[]) to munit_suite_main, GCC will warn about it.

[nemequ]

Interesting. I wonder if const char* const* (on munit_suite_main) would work… Based on that page I don't think so, but it's worth a try. I'll play around with it this afternoon.

[jibsen]

It believe it would work in C++, but in C I think char *const * is the best you can hope for if you wish to be able to pass a char ** without a warning or a cast.

It's not a big deal, just an oddity of C really .. but it would perhaps be preferable if the standard type could be passed without warnings.

[nemequ]

Yeah, I think you're right, char * const * is the best we can do. const is one of the things that C really gets wrong IMHO (most of the other issues I have are really problems with the standard library, not the language).