Landing: 922d530f0aa6

Project / Subsystem

binutils / binutils

Date

2026-05-07

Author

H.J. Lu <hjl@sourceware.org>

Commit

922d530f0aa6973b92489e4c84a449bf09421b1f

Source

public_inbox

Perf win

No

Breaking

No

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binutils
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binutils
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922d530f0aa6973b92489e4c84a449bf09421b1f
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public_inbox
headline
binutils: fix C23 -Wdiscarded-qualifiers errors
tldr
Fixes -Wdiscarded-qualifiers errors in binutils by correctly handling const char* return values from strchr.
author
H.J. Lu <hjl@sourceware.org>
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committed
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  • binutils
  • const
  • warning
  • C23
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date
2026-05-07T00:00:00.000Z

This commit resolves -Wdiscarded-qualifiers errors in binutils, which arise when assigning the return value of strchr (which is now a const char* when passed a const char*) to a non-const char*. The affected files are addr2line.c, nm.c, and prdbg.c.