This is the first of two commits (didn't want to dump them all into the
same one). However, the first will temporarily break things until the second comes through. :-) The safestack.h handling was mapping compare callbacks that externally are of the type (int (*)(type **,type **)) into the underlying callback type used by stack.[ch], which is (int (*)(void *,void *)). After some degree of digging, it appears that the callback type in the underlying stack code should use double pointers too - when the compare operations are invoked (from sk_find and sk_sort), they are being used by bsearch and qsort to compare two pointers to pointers. This change corrects the prototyping (by only casting to the (void*,void*) form at the moment it is needed by bsearch and qsort) and makes the mapping in safestack.h more transparent. It also changes from "void*" to "char*" to stay in keeping with stack.[ch]'s assumed base type of "char". Also - the "const" situation was that safestack.h was throwing away "const"s, and to compound the problem - a close examination of stack.c showed that (const char **) is not really achieving what it is supposed to when the callback is being invoked, what is needed is (const char * const *). So the underlying stack.[ch] and the mapping macros in safestack.h have all been altered to correct this. What will follow are the vast quantities of "const" corrections required in stack-dependant code that was being let "slip" through when safestack.h was discarding "const"s. These now all come up as compiler warnings.
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