-Wall, preprocesor, const foo, and pointers

["Artur R. Czechowski" <arturcz@hell.pl>]

Hello,
I would like to package my software (ITP #187282). I would like to have it
compiled cleanly with -Wall (well, at least on x86). There is a problem with
some pcre_* functions.
Let's see what manual says about pcre_compile:

       pcre *pcre_compile(const char *pattern, int options,
            const char **errptr, int *erroffset,
            const unsigned char *tableptr);

Well, let's check, what is in /usr/incluce/pcre.h:

extern pcre *pcre_compile(const char *, int, const char **,
              int *, const unsigned char *);

OK, types match.

So, let's take a look into my code (well, just except):

        const char *re_error;
        *pre=pcre_compile(re,PCRE_COPT,&re_error,&re_errno,NULL);

CFLAGS="-Wall -Werror" make gives:

strpcre.c: In function `compile_re':
strpcre.c:75: warning: passing arg 3 of `pcre_compile' from incompatible pointer type

(and similar errors for pcre_study, pcre_get_substring_list
and pcre_free_substring_list)

I run gcc -E on this strpcre.c. Results amased me.

extern pcre *pcre_compile(const char *, int, const char **,
              int *, const unsigned char *);

it is ok, but:

        char *re_error;
        *pre=pcre_compile(re,0x0001|0x0004,&re_error,&re_errno,((void *)0));

so, what's happened with const keyword? Is it any preprocesor bug/feature?
Did I forget about someting?

To make a picture complete:
arturcz@blabluga:~$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.3.3 20031229 (prerelease) (Debian)
arturcz@blabluga:~$ dpkg -l gcc
[...]
ii  gcc            3.3.2-2        The GNU C compiler

If you want to do any test for yourself public CVS is available. Reference
at: http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=55979

Any help/suggestions welcomed.

Cheers
	Artur
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