Comment by duneroadrunner

So I don't write much C code these days, but I recently encountered strtol() again and am I mistaken or does the interface also violate const correctness? I mean it takes a const char* as the first parameter and then gives you back a (non-const) char* potentially pointing into the same string, right? Like, does strtol() get a pass because it's old, or is const correctness (still) not generally a concern of C programmers?