[PATCH] gcc: Make strchr return value pointers const

[Richard Sandiford]

JonY via Gcc-patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org> writes:
> On 9/4/20 12:47 PM, Martin Storsjö wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Fri, 4 Sep 2020, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 04:01:42PM +0300, Martin Storsjö wrote:
>>>> This fixes compilation of codepaths for dos-like filesystems
>>>> with Clang. When built with clang, it treats C input files as C++
>>>> when the compiler driver is invoked in C++ mode, triggering errors
>>>> when the return value of strchr() on a pointer to const is assigned
>>>> to a pointer to non-const variable.
>>>
>>> Not really specific to clang, e.g. glibc does that in its headers too
>>> as the C++ standard mandates that (and I guess mingw should do that too).
>>>
>>>> This matches similar variables outside of the ifdefs for dos-like
>>>> path handling.
>>>>
>>>> 2020-09-01  Martin Storsjö  <martin@martin.st>
>>>>
>>>> gcc/Changelog:
>>>>         * dwarf2out.c (file_name_acquire): Make a strchr return value
>>>>         pointer to const.
>>>>
>>>> libcpp/Changelog:
>>>>         * files.c (remap_filename): Make a strchr return value pointer
>>>>         to const.
>>>
>>> LGTM.  And it is short enough not to need copyright assignment, so ok for
>>> trunk.
>> 
>> Thanks! Can someone commit this for me?
>> 
>> // Martin
>
> Ping can anyone commit this?
>
> Are platform maintainers allowed to push general changes like these? If
> so I can push soon.

Yeah, anyone with commit access can push an approved patch.

Richard