arrays of pointers and "incompatible pointer" warnings

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From: Richard M Stallman
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1991 22:23

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    about incompatible pointer types.
    > lala.c: In function a_function:
    > lala.c:13: warning: argument passing between incompatible pointer types

    Removing const makes the pointers compatible -- implying that
    const char *[] is incompatible with char **.   This seems wrong,

GCC is following ANSI C, which says that these types aren't compatible.
In this case, I don't think anything is really wrong with the code.
But you can avoid the warning by adding a cast, and I think that's
a simple enough option, so there's no problem with how things are now.

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