closes bpo-39605: Fix some casts to not cast away const. (GH-18453)

gcc -Wcast-qual turns up a number of instances of casting away constness of pointers. Some of these can be safely modified, by either:

Adding the const to the type cast, as in:

-    return _PyUnicode_FromUCS1((unsigned char*)s, size);
+    return _PyUnicode_FromUCS1((const unsigned char*)s, size);

or, Removing the cast entirely, because it's not necessary (but probably was at one time), as in:

-    PyDTrace_FUNCTION_ENTRY((char *)filename, (char *)funcname, lineno);
+    PyDTrace_FUNCTION_ENTRY(filename, funcname, lineno);

These changes will not change code, but they will make it much easier to check for errors in consts
(cherry picked from commit e6be9b59a911626d6597fe148c32f0342bd2bd24)

Co-authored-by: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Objects/stringlib/asciilib.h b/Objects/stringlib/asciilib.h
index d0fc18d22fa..8f83614488e 100644
--- a/Objects/stringlib/asciilib.h
+++ b/Objects/stringlib/asciilib.h
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 #define STRINGLIB_TODECIMAL      Py_UNICODE_TODECIMAL
 #define STRINGLIB_STR            PyUnicode_1BYTE_DATA
 #define STRINGLIB_LEN            PyUnicode_GET_LENGTH
-#define STRINGLIB_NEW(STR,LEN)   _PyUnicode_FromASCII((char*)(STR),(LEN))
+#define STRINGLIB_NEW(STR,LEN)   _PyUnicode_FromASCII((const char*)(STR),(LEN))
 #define STRINGLIB_CHECK          PyUnicode_Check
 #define STRINGLIB_CHECK_EXACT    PyUnicode_CheckExact