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Add const to several API functions that take char *.

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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 *.
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Jeremy Hylton 2005-12-10 18:50:16 +00:00
parent aaa2f1dea7
commit af68c874a6
52 changed files with 272 additions and 255 deletions
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Modules/sha512module.c
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@ -690,7 +690,7 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(SHA512_new__doc__,
static PyObject *
SHA512_new(PyObject *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwdict)
{
static char *kwlist[] = {"string", NULL};
static const char *kwlist[] = {"string", NULL};
SHAobject *new;
unsigned char *cp = NULL;
int len;
@ -721,7 +721,7 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(SHA384_new__doc__,
static PyObject *
SHA384_new(PyObject *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwdict)
{
static char *kwlist[] = {"string", NULL};
static const char *kwlist[] = {"string", NULL};
SHAobject *new;
unsigned char *cp = NULL;
int len;