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Re: missing const in prototypes

From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2025 19:06:22 +0100 (CET)

On Sun, 23 Nov 2025, Patrick Monnerat via curl-library wrote:

> I'm aware changing our prototype definitions may cause existing programs to
> fail compilation, but I wonder if it is intentional we do not have const in
> the following declarations (upper case CONST added to show where):

It was just omitted when we made them and then we don't change them. They
probably should have been made const.

> In case we do not want to change them, why not saying in docs they should be
> treated as such ?

If you think the documentation benefits from such a mention, please go ahead
and make such proposed change.

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