ANSI C complaints under MacOS X

• To: netcdfgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
• Subject: ANSI C complaints under MacOS X
• From: Paul Wessel <pwessel@xxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 07:57:26 -1000

Hi group-

I am linking programs (GMT) with the netcdf library (3.5.0) under MacOS X.
The MacOS X cc compiler (based on gcc) gives warnings for
lines 190 and 193 in netcdf.h, saying

ANSI C forbids const or volatile functions

The offending lines are:

EXTERNL const char *
nc_inq_libvers(void);

EXTERNL const char *
nc_strerror(int ncerr);

I get no such warnings under Linux.  While they are just warnings and cause no
problems it is annoying to see them and if the message about ANSI C is true
then shouldn't netcdf.h take the const declarations out?

Cheers,

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Dept. of Geology & Geophysics
SOEST, University of Hawaii at Manoa
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