[libdvdcss-devel] [PATCH 05/47] Mark strings as const where appropriate.
Jean-Baptiste Kempf
jb at videolan.org
Wed Nov 5 13:08:14 CET 2014
On 05 Nov, David Woodhouse wrote :
> On Thu, 2014-10-30 at 16:09 +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >
> > It shouldn't be. ABI should not change at all as no position or size of
> > a symbol is affected. API-wise there might be fresh warnings, but all
> > code should remain compatible.
>
> There shouldn't even be fresh warnings. If you'd made the change in the
> other direction there might be (passing a const char * to a function
> which takes a char * will trigger a warning). But you can always pass a
> non-const pointer to something which promises not to touch it.
OK.
With my kindest regards,
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