commit e2f92de6a90ae11a6d8e01bd17fd88b005516835
author Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> Sat Nov 11 13:06:26 2017 +0200
committer GitHub <noreply@github.com> Sat Nov 11 13:06:26 2017 +0200
tree a5bc255a98f488e5ecf195dc3f55665e9afecc47
parent e184cfd7bf8bcfd160e3b611d4351ca3ce52d9e2

Add the const qualifier to "char *" variables that refer to literal strings. (#4370)

Python/bltinmodule.c

diff --git a/Python/bltinmodule.c b/Python/bltinmodule.c
index 6215a63..8eac0af 100644
--- a/Python/bltinmodule.c
+++ b/Python/bltinmodule.c
@@ -1942,7 +1942,7 @@
     /* If we're interactive, use (GNU) readline */
     if (tty) {
         PyObject *po = NULL;
-        char *promptstr;
+        const char *promptstr;
         char *s = NULL;
         PyObject *stdin_encoding = NULL, *stdin_errors = NULL;
         PyObject *stdout_encoding = NULL, *stdout_errors = NULL;

Python/compile.c

diff --git a/Python/compile.c b/Python/compile.c
index 58a708c..a3ea60d 100644
--- a/Python/compile.c
+++ b/Python/compile.c
@@ -4846,7 +4846,7 @@
 static int
 compiler_visit_slice(struct compiler *c, slice_ty s, expr_context_ty ctx)
 {
-    char * kindname = NULL;
+    const char * kindname = NULL;
     switch (s->kind) {
     case Index_kind:
         kindname = "index";

Python/pyhash.c

diff --git a/Python/pyhash.c b/Python/pyhash.c
index 8a6bd60..aa49eeb 100644
--- a/Python/pyhash.c
+++ b/Python/pyhash.c
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@
 #ifdef Py_HASH_STATS
     int i;
     Py_ssize_t total = 0;
-    char *fmt = "%2i %8" PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T "d %8" PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T "d\n";
+    const char *fmt = "%2i %8" PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T "d %8" PY_FORMAT_SIZE_T "d\n";
 
     fprintf(stderr, "len   calls    total\n");
     for (i = 1; i <= Py_HASH_STATS_MAX; i++) {

Python/pystrtod.c

diff --git a/Python/pystrtod.c b/Python/pystrtod.c
index f19d239..9bf9363 100644
--- a/Python/pystrtod.c
+++ b/Python/pystrtod.c
@@ -597,7 +597,8 @@
 ensure_decimal_point(char* buffer, size_t buf_size, int precision)
 {
     int digit_count, insert_count = 0, convert_to_exp = 0;
-    char *chars_to_insert, *digits_start;
+    const char *chars_to_insert;
+    char *digits_start;
 
     /* search for the first non-digit character */
     char *p = buffer;

Python/pythonrun.c

diff --git a/Python/pythonrun.c b/Python/pythonrun.c
index 17ec182..3d63186 100644
--- a/Python/pythonrun.c
+++ b/Python/pythonrun.c
@@ -1300,7 +1300,7 @@
 {
     PyObject *v, *w, *errtype, *errtext;
     PyObject *msg_obj = NULL;
-    char *msg = NULL;
+    const char *msg = NULL;
     int offset = err->offset;
 
     errtype = PyExc_SyntaxError;