Having found a lot of unfixed constness issues in recent development,
I thought perhaps it was time to get proactive, so I compiled the
whole codebase with -Wwrite-strings. That turned up a huge load of
const problems, which I've fixed in this commit: the Unix build now
goes cleanly through with -Wwrite-strings, and the Windows build is as
close as I could get it (there are some lingering issues due to
occasional Windows API functions like AcquireCredentialsHandle not
having the right constness).
Notable fallout beyond the purely mechanical changing of types:
- the stuff saved by cmdline_save_param() is now explicitly
dupstr()ed, and freed in cmdline_run_saved.
- I couldn't make both string arguments to cmdline_process_param()
const, because it intentionally writes to one of them in the case
where it's the argument to -pw (in the vain hope of being at least
slightly friendly to 'ps'), so elsewhere I had to temporarily
dupstr() something for the sake of passing it to that function
- I had to invent a silly parallel version of const_cmp() so I could
pass const string literals in to lookup functions.
- stripslashes() in pscp.c and psftp.c has the annoying strchr nature
that the user really ought to know but that are not actually fatal to
continued operation of PuTTY or a single network connection.
[originally from svn r9932]
[SessionWindow dealloc] (which was required in order to avoid
segfaulting when a redraw timer fired for a closed session window!).
[originally from svn r5400]
with the Unix port and layering a Cocoa GUI on top. The basics all
work: there's a configuration panel and a terminal window, the
timing interface works and the select interface functions. The same
application can run both SSH (or other network) connections and
local pty sessions, and multiple sessions in the same process are
fully supported.
However, it's horribly unfinished in a wide variety of other ways;
anyone interested is invited to read README.OSX and wince at the
length and content of its `unfinished' list.
[originally from svn r5308]
