closes bpo-39721: Fix constness of members of tok_state struct. (GH-18600)
The function PyTokenizer_FromUTF8 from Parser/tokenizer.c had a comment:
/* XXX: constify members. */
This patch addresses that.
In the tok_state struct:
* end and start were non-const but could be made const
* str and input were const but should have been non-const
Changes to support this include:
* decode_str() now returns a char * since it is allocated.
* PyTokenizer_FromString() and PyTokenizer_FromUTF8() each creates a
new char * for an allocate string instead of reusing the input
const char *.
* PyTokenizer_Get() and tok_get() now take const char ** arguments.
* Various local vars are const or non-const accordingly.
I was able to remove five casts that cast away constness.3 files changed