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| author | Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com> | 2021-12-11 15:10:14 -0700 |
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| committer | Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com> | 2021-12-20 08:49:27 -0700 |
| commit | dde238e063376f96d52ff27f11b31a447ddbdfea (patch) | |
| tree | 12d55ab85c592669dd02d14817f247bea49dc718 | |
| parent | db956d66c94de1bc1ff9ac1c38350f14e81c11f6 (diff) | |
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Make n_spaces return a const char *
n_spaces keeps the spaces in a static buffer. If a caller overwrites
these, it may give an incorrect result to a subsequent caller. So,
make the return type const to help avoid this outcome.
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/utils.c | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/utils.h | 2 |
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/utils.c b/gdb/utils.c index e27a881..ea0f65c 100644 --- a/gdb/utils.c +++ b/gdb/utils.c @@ -2303,7 +2303,7 @@ puts_unfiltered (const char *string) /* Return a pointer to N spaces and a null. The pointer is good until the next call to here. */ -char * +const char * n_spaces (int n) { char *t; diff --git a/gdb/utils.h b/gdb/utils.h index 6f3a702..f6fd32f 100644 --- a/gdb/utils.h +++ b/gdb/utils.h @@ -473,7 +473,7 @@ extern void print_spaces (int, struct ui_file *); extern void print_spaces_filtered (int, struct ui_file *); -extern char *n_spaces (int); +extern const char *n_spaces (int); extern void fputstr_filtered (const char *str, int quotr, struct ui_file * stream); |