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>gint gtk_clist_prepend (GtkCList *clist,
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>Answer: No, while a type "gchar*" (pointer to char) can
automatically be cast into "const gchar*" (pointer to const
char), this does not apply for "gchar *[]" (array of an
unspecified number of pointers to char) into "const gchar *[]"
(array of an unspecified number of pointers to const char).</P
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>The type qualifier "const" may be subject to automatic
casting, but in the array case, it is not the array itself
that needs the (const) qualified cast, but its members, thus
changing the whole type.</P
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