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authorJeremy Hylton <jeremy@alum.mit.edu>2005-12-10 18:50:16 (GMT)
committerJeremy Hylton <jeremy@alum.mit.edu>2005-12-10 18:50:16 (GMT)
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Add const to several API functions that take char *.
In C++, it's an error to pass a string literal to a char* function without a const_cast(). Rather than require every C++ extension module to put a cast around string literals, fix the API to state the const-ness. I focused on parts of the API where people usually pass literals: PyArg_ParseTuple() and friends, Py_BuildValue(), PyMethodDef, the type slots, etc. Predictably, there were a large set of functions that needed to be fixed as a result of these changes. The most pervasive change was to make the keyword args list passed to PyArg_ParseTupleAndKewords() to be a const char *kwlist[]. One cast was required as a result of the changes: A type object mallocs the memory for its tp_doc slot and later frees it. PyTypeObject says that tp_doc is const char *; but if the type was created by type_new(), we know it is safe to cast to char *.
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diff --git a/Modules/cStringIO.c b/Modules/cStringIO.c
index 9ed77d8..0d50459 100644
--- a/Modules/cStringIO.c
+++ b/Modules/cStringIO.c
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(O_write__doc__,
static int
-O_cwrite(PyObject *self, char *c, int l) {
+O_cwrite(PyObject *self, const char *c, int l) {
int newl;
Oobject *oself;