Currently, when the argument of copyObject() is const-qualified, the
return type is also, because the use of typeof carries over all the
qualifiers. This is incorrect, since the point of copyObject() is to
make a copy to mutate. But apparently no code ran into it.
The new implementation uses typeof_unqual, which drops the qualifiers,
making this work correctly.
typeof_unqual is standardized in C23, but all recent versions of all
the usual compilers support it even in non-C23 mode, at least as
__typeof_unqual__. We add a configure/meson test for typeof_unqual
and __typeof_unqual__ and use it if it's available, else we use the
existing fallback of just returning void *.
Reviewed-by: David Geier <geidav.pg@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/92f9750f-c7f6-42d8-9a4a-85a3cbe808f3%40eisentraut.org
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