Why are stdin/stdout/stderr `FILE *const` in musl?

[CodingMarkus <CodingMarkus@hanauska.name>]

Hello everyone!

Just a quick question:
Why does musl define stdin, stdout, and stderr to be of type `FILE *const`? Neither the C standard, nor the POSIX standard require, recommend or even imply that it would be allowed that this is a `const` pointer. That’s why other C libraries define it as `FILE *` only because that matches the examples given by POSIX and that matches the description found in any ISO-C standard. Making them const only break compatibility with other C libraries, e.g. considered this code:

	void * getOutputPtr ( void ) {
		if (/* whatever */) {
			return &stdout;
		}
		return &stderr;
	}

This code is correct by C standard and it is correct by POSIX standard but it won’t compile with strict compiler settings when using musl as the compiler complains that the `const` is lost and there is no explicitly cast for that. 

	error: cannot initialize return object of type 'void *' with an rvalue of type 'FILE *const *'


The reason why there is no cast is because a C programmer doesn’t have to expect a const here and thus this code would usually not require a cast. I don’t know what the intention is behind making stdX const, it’s probably a good one, but if that makes your header files incompatible to both, C and POSIX standard, then it is a horrible change that only means trouble and will not improve anything for anyone.

Regards,
Markus