[gnutls-devel] GnuTLS | Mark second argument of function gnutls_x509_crt_equals2 as const (!1000)

[Development of GNU's TLS library]

Uhg, that is hard-to-recognize issue with typedef'ing pointers. A good reason not to do so.

gcc -Wall shows it:
```
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>

typedef char *str;
typedef const char *str_const;

int main(void)
{
        str s1 = strdup("a");
        str_const s2 = strdup("b");
        const str s3 = strdup("c"); // same as 'str const s3'

        *s1 = 'x'; // OK
        *s2 = 'y'; // error
        *s3 = 'z'; // OK
        s3 = NULL; // error, s3 is 'char * const' not a 'const char *'

        return 0;
}
```

That means we need an extra typedef to make use of 'const' for typedef'ed pointers. Ugly.

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