closes bpo-39605: Fix some casts to not cast away const. (GH-18453)
gcc -Wcast-qual turns up a number of instances of casting away constness of pointers. Some of these can be safely modified, by either:
Adding the const to the type cast, as in:
- return _PyUnicode_FromUCS1((unsigned char*)s, size);
+ return _PyUnicode_FromUCS1((const unsigned char*)s, size);
or, Removing the cast entirely, because it's not necessary (but probably was at one time), as in:
- PyDTrace_FUNCTION_ENTRY((char *)filename, (char *)funcname, lineno);
+ PyDTrace_FUNCTION_ENTRY(filename, funcname, lineno);
These changes will not change code, but they will make it much easier to check for errors in consts
diff --git a/Objects/stringlib/asciilib.h b/Objects/stringlib/asciilib.h
index e955526..e69a2c0 100644
--- a/Objects/stringlib/asciilib.h
+++ b/Objects/stringlib/asciilib.h
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
#define STRINGLIB_TODECIMAL Py_UNICODE_TODECIMAL
#define STRINGLIB_STR PyUnicode_1BYTE_DATA
#define STRINGLIB_LEN PyUnicode_GET_LENGTH
-#define STRINGLIB_NEW(STR,LEN) _PyUnicode_FromASCII((char*)(STR),(LEN))
+#define STRINGLIB_NEW(STR,LEN) _PyUnicode_FromASCII((const char*)(STR),(LEN))
#define STRINGLIB_CHECK PyUnicode_Check
#define STRINGLIB_CHECK_EXACT PyUnicode_CheckExact