[issue19296] Compiler warning when compiling dbm module

[Nick Coghlan]

Nick Coghlan added the comment:

I get the same warning on Fedora 19.

However, the signature of dbmopen_impl is generated by argument clinic, so it isn't simply a matter of patching the signature in place. I'm also inclined to consider the *platform* header to be wrong, since the dbm_open API really should be accepting "const char *" rather than "char *".

We should find a way to silence the warning to avoid the false alarm in the build output (a cast to "char *" with a reference to this issue would be the brute force approach), but propagating the incorrect type declaration higher up the call stack is unlikely to be the right approach.

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nosy: +larry, ncoghlan

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