Re: [PATCH v5 10/12] string: factorize skip_spaces and export it tobe generally available

[Anders Larsen]

On 2009-11-15 08:15:03, André Goddard Rosa wrote:
> +char *skip_spaces(const char *str)
> +{
> +	while (isspace(*str))
> +		++str;
> +	return (char *)str;
> +}

Is there a good reason why the parameter 'str' is declared 'const'
when skip_spaces() returns a non-const pointer into str ?

Cheers
Anders
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