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Re: [PATCH 06/18] -Wwrite-strings: Constify target_pid_to_str and target_thread_extra_thread_info
On Tuesday, April 04, 2017 06:25:39 PM Pedro Alves wrote:
> -Wwrite-strings flagged a missing cast for example here:
>
> static char *
> ravenscar_extra_thread_info (struct target_ops *self, struct thread_info *tp)
> {
> return "Ravenscar task";
>
> Since callers are not supposed to free the string returned by these
> methods, change the methods' signature to return const strings.
>
> gdb/ChangeLog:
> yyyy-mm-dd Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
>
> diff --git a/gdb/bsd-kvm.c b/gdb/bsd-kvm.c
> index 9f4f9e7..98e2428 100644
> --- a/gdb/bsd-kvm.c
> +++ b/gdb/bsd-kvm.c
> @@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ bsd_kvm_thread_alive (struct target_ops *ops,
> return 1;
> }
>
> -static char *
> +static const char *
> bsd_kvm_pid_to_str (struct target_ops *ops, ptid_t ptid)
> {
> static char buf[64];
> diff --git a/gdb/bsd-uthread.c b/gdb/bsd-uthread.c
> index 08b8f36..5d4775c 100644
> --- a/gdb/bsd-uthread.c
> +++ b/gdb/bsd-uthread.c
> @@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ static char *bsd_uthread_state[] =
> /* Return a string describing th state of the thread specified by
> INFO. */
>
> -static char *
> +static const char *
> bsd_uthread_extra_thread_info (struct target_ops *self,
> struct thread_info *info)
> {
> @@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ bsd_uthread_extra_thread_info (struct target_ops *self,
> return NULL;
> }
>
> -static char *
> +static const char *
> bsd_uthread_pid_to_str (struct target_ops *ops, ptid_t ptid)
> {
> if (ptid_get_tid (ptid) != 0)
> diff --git a/gdb/fbsd-nat.c b/gdb/fbsd-nat.c
> index d99f436..96781cd 100644
> --- a/gdb/fbsd-nat.c
> +++ b/gdb/fbsd-nat.c
> @@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ fbsd_thread_alive (struct target_ops *ops, ptid_t ptid)
> /* Convert PTID to a string. Returns the string in a static
> buffer. */
>
> -static char *
> +static const char *
> fbsd_pid_to_str (struct target_ops *ops, ptid_t ptid)
> {
> lwpid_t lwp;
> diff --git a/gdb/fbsd-tdep.c b/gdb/fbsd-tdep.c
> index 46875d8..b834ce3 100644
> --- a/gdb/fbsd-tdep.c
> +++ b/gdb/fbsd-tdep.c
> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
>
> /* This is how we want PTIDs from core files to be printed. */
>
> -static char *
> +static const char *
> fbsd_core_pid_to_str (struct gdbarch *gdbarch, ptid_t ptid)
> {
> static char buf[80];
These look fine to me (as well as the change in general).
--
John Baldwin