The issues found fell into these categories, with the applied fixes:
- const was accidentally stripped.
Adjust code to not cast or cast with const.
- const/volatile missing from arguments, local variables.
Constify arguments or variables, adjust/delete casts. Small code
changes in a few places.
- const must be stripped because an API dependency requires it.
Strip `const` with `CURL_UNCONST()` macro to silence the warning out
of our control. These happen at API boundaries. Sometimes they depend
on dependency version, which this patch handles as necessary. Also
enable const support for the zlib API, using `ZLIB_CONST`. Supported
by zlib 1.2.5.2 and newer.
- const must be stripped because a curl API requires it.
Strip `const` with `CURL_UNCONST()` macro to silence the warning out
of our immediate control. For example we promise to send a non-const
argument to a callback, though the data is const internally.
- other cases where we may avoid const stripping by code changes.
Also silenced with `CURL_UNCONST()`.
- there are 3 places where `CURL_UNCONST()` is cast again to const.
To silence this type of warning:
```
lib/vquic/curl_osslq.c:1015:29: error: to be safe all intermediate
pointers in cast from 'unsigned char **' to 'const unsigned char **'
must be 'const' qualified [-Werror=cast-qual]
lib/cf-socket.c:734:32: error: to be safe all intermediate pointers in
cast from 'char **' to 'const char **' must be 'const' qualified
[-Werror=cast-qual]
```
There may be a better solution, but I couldn't find it.
These cases are handled in separate subcommits, but without further
markup.
If you see a `-Wcast-qual` warning in curl, we appreciate your report
about it.
Closes#16142
To reduce the number `-Wunused-macro` compiler warnings:
- delete unused macros.
- comment out unused macro that are part of a set.
- move macros into the scope they are used.
This may be useful to enable by default, but there are tricky cases that
I didn't manage to fix and paused the effort. E.g. internal features
checks in `openssl.c`. There is more, once those are fixed.
Closes#16279
Based on the standards and guidelines we use for our documentation.
- expand contractions (they're => they are etc)
- host name = > hostname
- file name => filename
- user name = username
- man page => manpage
- run-time => runtime
- set-up => setup
- back-end => backend
- a HTTP => an HTTP
- Two spaces after a period => one space after period
Closes#14073
Since the copy does not stop at a null byte, let's not call it anything
that makes you think it works like the common strndup() function.
Based on feedback from Jay Satiro, Stefan Eissing and Patrick Monnerat
Closes#12490
- bufref: use strndup
- cookie: use strndup
- formdata: use strndup
- ftp: use strndup
- gtls: use aprintf instead of malloc + strcpy * 2
- http: use strndup
- mbedtls: use strndup
- md4: use memdup
- ntlm: use memdup
- ntlm_sspi: use strndup
- pingpong: use memdup
- rtsp: use strndup instead of malloc, memcpy and null-terminate
- sectransp: use strndup
- socks_gssapi.c: use memdup
- vtls: use dynbuf instead of malloc, snprintf and memcpy
- vtls: use strdup instead of malloc + memcpy
- wolfssh: use strndup
Closes#12453
- they are mostly pointless in all major jurisdictions
- many big corporations and projects already don't use them
- saves us from pointless churn
- git keeps history for us
- the year range is kept in COPYING
checksrc is updated to allow non-year using copyright statements
Closes#10205
Add licensing and copyright information for all files in this repository. This
either happens in the file itself as a comment header or in the file
`.reuse/dep5`.
This commit also adds a Github workflow to check pull requests and adapts
copyright.pl to the changes.
Closes#8869
A struct bufref holds a buffer pointer, a data size and a destructor.
When freed or its contents are changed, the previous buffer is implicitly
released by the associated destructor. The data size, although not used
internally, allows binary data support.
A unit test checks its handling methods: test 1661
Closes#6654
