Don't return a pointer to a const struct, since apps expect to be able to

2005-12-16  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        *  glib/gmem.c (g_allocator_new): Don't return a pointer to
        a const struct, since apps expect to be able to modify it.
        (#324179, J. Ali Harlow)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 50260fc..17b917a 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2005-12-16  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>
+
+       *  glib/gmem.c (g_allocator_new): Don't return a pointer to
+       a const struct, since apps expect to be able to modify it. 
+       (#324179, J. Ali Harlow)
+
 Tue Dec 13 10:13:32 2005  Tim Janik  <timj@imendio.com>
 
        * glib/gatomic.h: added g_atomic_pointer_set() and g_atomic_int_set()

diff --git a/ChangeLog.pre-2-10 b/ChangeLog.pre-2-10
index 50260fc..17b917a 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog.pre-2-10
+++ b/ChangeLog.pre-2-10
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2005-12-16  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>
+
+       *  glib/gmem.c (g_allocator_new): Don't return a pointer to
+       a const struct, since apps expect to be able to modify it. 
+       (#324179, J. Ali Harlow)
+
 Tue Dec 13 10:13:32 2005  Tim Janik  <timj@imendio.com>
 
        * glib/gatomic.h: added g_atomic_pointer_set() and g_atomic_int_set()

diff --git a/ChangeLog.pre-2-12 b/ChangeLog.pre-2-12
index 50260fc..17b917a 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog.pre-2-12
+++ b/ChangeLog.pre-2-12
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2005-12-16  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>
+
+       *  glib/gmem.c (g_allocator_new): Don't return a pointer to
+       a const struct, since apps expect to be able to modify it. 
+       (#324179, J. Ali Harlow)
+
 Tue Dec 13 10:13:32 2005  Tim Janik  <timj@imendio.com>
 
        * glib/gatomic.h: added g_atomic_pointer_set() and g_atomic_int_set()

diff --git a/glib/gmem.c b/glib/gmem.c
index 849ade5..84029f7 100644 (file)
--- a/glib/gmem.c
+++ b/glib/gmem.c
@@ -635,7 +635,7 @@ GAllocator*
 g_allocator_new (const gchar *name,
                 guint        n_preallocs)
 {
-  static const struct _GAllocator {
+  static struct _GAllocator {
     gchar      *name;
     guint16     n_preallocs;
     guint       is_unused : 1;