The following reply was made to PR standards/33125; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Takehiko NOZAKI <th-nozaki@netwrk.co.jp>
To: murray@river-styx.org
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: standards/33125: POSIX, const char parameters for telldir and iconv
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 21:16:51 +0900

 hi,
 
 > 2/ <iconv.h> defines
 >         size_t  iconv(iconv_t, const char ** __restrict,
 >                      size_t * __restrict, char ** __restrict,
 >                      size_t * __restrict);
 >    POSIX does not require the const on the second argument.
 
 we've already disucced this confliction.
 please read the thread of tech-userlevel that starts by the following mail.
 http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2004/07/26/0001.html.
     http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2004/07/
     http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2004/08/
 
 very truly yours.
 --
 Takehiko NOZAKI <tnozaki@netbsd.org>