#1 Burning Software

Hello Support,

I'm using the C-interface of the starburn engine and I noticed that in several functions input parameters are declared as 'PCHAR' which is defined as 'char *'. I guess (and hope) that these are in fact const . Would be great to change the declaration to something like 'const char *'.
Can I trust that the input strings are not changed inside the functions?

Regards,

Dave

See declarations. There are IN and OUT parameters declared. So PCHAR is NOT "const char *". At least - not always.

Well,

I know that PCHAR is not 'const char *', and my compiler too has some knowledge about that, but for example StarBurn_ISO9660JolietFileTree_BuildImage is declared with
...
IN PCHAR p__PCHAR__VolumeSetName Pointer to the volume set.
IN PCHAR p__PCHAR__PublisherPreparerName Pointer to the publisher and preparer name.
IN PCHAR p__PCHAR__ApplictionName Pointer to the application name.

It is IMHO clear that these parameters are input only and const.
If this is the case, they should be declared as such. Otherwise the compiler
will complain when using const char *.

Regards,

Dave

In this case - yes, you're absolutely correct!