[libdvdcss-devel] [PATCH 2/7] error: const correctness

[Diego Elio Pettenò]

It could, although it sounds unlikely that somebody is writing on the
error returned string, it is a formal API/ABI breakage.
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On 4 November 2014 19:18, Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org> wrote:
> Does it break ABI/API?
>
> On 04 Nov, Diego Biurrun wrote :
>> ---
>>
>> Returning "const char *" feels slightly weird, for some reason..
>>
>>  src/dvdcss/dvdcss.h | 2 +-
>>  src/error.c         | 2 +-
>>  src/libdvdcss.c     | 2 +-
>>  src/libdvdcss.h     | 4 ++--
>>  4 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/src/dvdcss/dvdcss.h b/src/dvdcss/dvdcss.h
>> index 64f95cf..ea62b8b 100644
>> --- a/src/dvdcss/dvdcss.h
>> +++ b/src/dvdcss/dvdcss.h
>> @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ LIBDVDCSS_EXPORT int      dvdcss_readv ( dvdcss_t,
>>                                 void *p_iovec,
>>                                 int i_blocks,
>>                                 int i_flags );
>> -LIBDVDCSS_EXPORT char *   dvdcss_error ( dvdcss_t );
>> +LIBDVDCSS_EXPORT const char *dvdcss_error ( const dvdcss_t );
>>
>>  LIBDVDCSS_EXPORT int      dvdcss_is_scrambled ( dvdcss_t );
>>
>> diff --git a/src/error.c b/src/error.c
>> index 9d5f242..00aee4a 100644
>> --- a/src/error.c
>> +++ b/src/error.c
>> @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
>>  /*****************************************************************************
>>   * Error messages
>>   *****************************************************************************/
>> -void print_error( dvdcss_t dvdcss, char *psz_string )
>> +void print_error( dvdcss_t dvdcss, const char *psz_string )
>>  {
>>      if( dvdcss->b_errors )
>>      {
>> diff --git a/src/libdvdcss.c b/src/libdvdcss.c
>> index 975d745..ab80b9c 100644
>> --- a/src/libdvdcss.c
>> +++ b/src/libdvdcss.c
>> @@ -562,7 +562,7 @@ error:
>>   * Return a string with the last error message produced by \e libdvdcss.
>>   * Useful to conveniently format error messages in external applications.
>>   */
>> -LIBDVDCSS_EXPORT char * dvdcss_error ( dvdcss_t dvdcss )
>> +LIBDVDCSS_EXPORT const char * dvdcss_error ( const dvdcss_t dvdcss )
>>  {
>>      return dvdcss->psz_error;
>>  }
>> diff --git a/src/libdvdcss.h b/src/libdvdcss.h
>> index 399a1a3..221e6fe 100644
>> --- a/src/libdvdcss.h
>> +++ b/src/libdvdcss.h
>> @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ struct dvdcss_s
>>      char * psz_block;
>>
>>      /* Error management */
>> -    char * psz_error;
>> +    const char *psz_error;
>>      int    b_errors;
>>      int    b_debug;
>>
>> @@ -96,6 +96,6 @@ struct dvdcss_s
>>          fprintf( stderr, "\n" ); \
>>      }
>>
>> -void print_error ( dvdcss_t, char * );
>> +void print_error ( dvdcss_t, const char * );
>>
>>  #endif /* DVDCSS_LIBDVDCSS_H */
>> --
>> 1.9.1
>>
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>
> --
> With my kindest regards,
>
> --
> Jean-Baptiste Kempf
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