2002-10-09 David Carlton <carlton@math.stanford.edu>

	* symfile.h: Add opaque declaration for struct obstack.
	Declare obsavestring to take a const char *.
	* symfile.c (obsavestring): Make first argument a const char *.

diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index b36401b..792c17b 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2002-10-09  David Carlton  <carlton@math.stanford.edu>
+
+       * symfile.h: Add opaque declaration for struct obstack.
+       Declare obsavestring to take a const char *.
+       * symfile.c (obsavestring): Make first argument a const char *.
+
 2002-10-16  Adam Fedor  <fedor@gnu.org>
 
        * breakpoint.c (parse_breakpoint_sals): Ignore ObjC method

diff --git a/gdb/symfile.c b/gdb/symfile.c
index 6b702a3..28c84f9 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/symfile.c
+++ b/gdb/symfile.c
@@ -299,16 +299,16 @@ sort_symtab_syms (register struct symtab *s)
    may be part of a larger string and we are only saving a substring. */
 
 char *
-obsavestring (char *ptr, int size, struct obstack *obstackp)
+obsavestring (const char *ptr, int size, struct obstack *obstackp)
 {
   register char *p = (char *) obstack_alloc (obstackp, size + 1);
   /* Open-coded memcpy--saves function call time.  These strings are usually
      short.  FIXME: Is this really still true with a compiler that can
      inline memcpy? */
   {
-    register char *p1 = ptr;
+    register const char *p1 = ptr;
     register char *p2 = p;
-    char *end = ptr + size;
+    const char *end = ptr + size;
     while (p1 != end)
       *p2++ = *p1++;
   }

diff --git a/gdb/symfile.h b/gdb/symfile.h
index 39eb308..62dfcef 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/symfile.h
+++ b/gdb/symfile.h
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@
 
 /* This file requires that you first include "bfd.h".  */
 
+/* Opaque declarations.  */
+
+struct obstack;
+
 /* Partial symbols are stored in the psymbol_cache and pointers to them
    are kept in a dynamically grown array that is obtained from malloc and
    grown as necessary via realloc.  Each objfile typically has two of these,
@@ -208,7 +212,7 @@ extern void sort_symtab_syms (struct symtab *);
    (and add a null character at the end in the copy).
    Returns the address of the copy.  */
 
-extern char *obsavestring (char *, int, struct obstack *);
+extern char *obsavestring (const char *, int, struct obstack *);
 
 /* Concatenate strings S1, S2 and S3; return the new string.
    Space is found in the symbol_obstack.  */