Fix some cases of indirectly casting away const.
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Fix some cases of indirectly casting away const. Newest versions of gcc+glibc are able to detect cases where code implicitly casts away const by assigning the result of strchr() or a similar function applied to a "const char *" value to a target variable that's just "char *". This of course creates a hazard of not getting a compiler warning about scribbling on a string one was not supposed to, so fixing up such cases is good. This patch fixes a dozen or so places where we were doing that. Most are trivial additions of "const" to the target variable, since no actually-hazardous change was occurring. Thanks to Bertrand Drouvot for finding a couple more spots than I had. This commit back-patches relevant portions of 8f1791c61 and 9f7565c6c into supported branches. However, there are two places in ecpg (in v18 only) where a proper fix is more complicated than seems appropriate for a back-patch. I opted to silence those two warnings by adding casts. Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1324889.1764886170@sss.pgh.pa.us Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3988414.1771950285@sss.pgh.pa.us Backpatch-through: 14-18
Files
| Path | Change | +/− |
|---|---|---|
| src/backend/catalog/pg_type.c | modified | +1 −1 |
| src/backend/tsearch/spell.c | modified | +1 −1 |
| src/backend/utils/adt/formatting.c | modified | +3 −2 |
| src/backend/utils/adt/pg_locale.c | modified | +1 −1 |
| src/backend/utils/adt/xid8funcs.c | modified | +1 −1 |
| src/bin/pgbench/pgbench.c | modified | +1 −1 |
| src/bin/pg_waldump/pg_waldump.c | modified | +1 −1 |
| src/common/compression.c | modified | +1 −1 |
| src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib/datetime.c | modified | +2 −2 |
| src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/ecpg.trailer | modified | +1 −1 |
| src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/variable.c | modified | +1 −1 |
| src/port/chklocale.c | modified | +1 −1 |
| src/port/getopt.c | modified | +1 −1 |
| src/port/getopt_long.c | modified | +1 −1 |
| src/port/win32setlocale.c | modified | +4 −4 |
| src/test/regress/pg_regress.c | modified | +1 −1 |
| src/timezone/zic.c | modified | +1 −1 |
Discussion
- Warning-suppression fixes we ought to back-patch 5 messages · 2026-02-24 → 2026-02-25
- More const-marking cleanup 11 messages · 2025-12-04 → 2025-12-29