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 *.
diff --git a/Include/modsupport.h b/Include/modsupport.h
index bc30c3f..7851683 100644
--- a/Include/modsupport.h
+++ b/Include/modsupport.h
@@ -9,22 +9,22 @@
#include <stdarg.h>
-PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyArg_Parse(PyObject *, char *, ...);
-PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyArg_ParseTuple(PyObject *, char *, ...);
+PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyArg_Parse(PyObject *, const char *, ...);
+PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyArg_ParseTuple(PyObject *, const char *, ...);
PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords(PyObject *, PyObject *,
- char *, char **, ...);
-PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyArg_UnpackTuple(PyObject *, char *, int, int, ...);
-PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) Py_BuildValue(char *, ...);
-PyAPI_FUNC(int) _PyArg_NoKeywords(char *funcname, PyObject *kw);
+ const char *, const char **, ...);
+PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyArg_UnpackTuple(PyObject *, const char *, int, int, ...);
+PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) Py_BuildValue(const char *, ...);
+PyAPI_FUNC(int) _PyArg_NoKeywords(const char *funcname, PyObject *kw);
-PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyArg_VaParse(PyObject *, char *, va_list);
+PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyArg_VaParse(PyObject *, const char *, va_list);
PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyArg_VaParseTupleAndKeywords(PyObject *, PyObject *,
- char *, char **, va_list);
-PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) Py_VaBuildValue(char *, va_list);
+ const char *, const char **, va_list);
+PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) Py_VaBuildValue(const char *, va_list);
-PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyModule_AddObject(PyObject *, char *, PyObject *);
-PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyModule_AddIntConstant(PyObject *, char *, long);
-PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyModule_AddStringConstant(PyObject *, char *, char *);
+PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyModule_AddObject(PyObject *, const char *, PyObject *);
+PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyModule_AddIntConstant(PyObject *, const char *, long);
+PyAPI_FUNC(int) PyModule_AddStringConstant(PyObject *, const char *, const char *);
#define PYTHON_API_VERSION 1012
#define PYTHON_API_STRING "1012"
@@ -84,9 +84,9 @@
#define Py_InitModule4 Py_InitModule4TraceRefs
#endif
-PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) Py_InitModule4(char *name, PyMethodDef *methods,
- char *doc, PyObject *self,
- int apiver);
+PyAPI_FUNC(PyObject *) Py_InitModule4(const char *name, PyMethodDef *methods,
+ const char *doc, PyObject *self,
+ int apiver);
#define Py_InitModule(name, methods) \
Py_InitModule4(name, methods, (char *)NULL, (PyObject *)NULL, \