Your message dated Sun, 28 Oct 2018 23:29:15 +0100 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line There are no -xpm/-noxpm packages nor gd 2.0.x in (old)stable has caused the Debian Bug report #294919, regarding libgd2-noxpm-dev: Allow const strings to be passed to gdImageStringFT() to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: libgd2-noxpm-dev Version: 2.0.33-1.1 Severity: normal At the moment, the gcc will issue a warning when using gdImageStringFT() with const strings. I discovered this while compiling mapserver with lots of warning flags. The declaration in /usr/include/gd.h currently look like this: /* FreeType 2 text output */ BGD_DECLARE(char *) gdImageStringFT (gdImage * im, int *brect, int fg, char *fontlist, double ptsize, double angle, int x, int y, char *string); The problem is the use of 'char *' instead of 'const char *'. This example program demonstrate the problem. As far as I can see, the code do not write to the strings, so it should be safe to convert the function to use 'const char *'. Here is an example program demonstrating the issue. The program is not supposed to run (the other arguments are bogus. :) Compile with gcc -Wall to see the warnings: /* * Demonstrate the following warning in gd.h: x.c: In function `main': x.c:5: warning: passing arg 4 of `gdImageStringFT' discards qualifiers from pointer target type x.c:5: warning: passing arg 9 of `gdImageStringFT' discards qualifiers from pointer target type */ #include <gd.h> const char fontlist[] = "font"; const char string[] = "hello world"; int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { const char *fontlist = "font"; char *s = gdImageStringFT (NULL, NULL, 0, fontlist, 0.0, 0.0, 0, 0, string); return s ? 0 : 1; } -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-1-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages libgd2-noxpm-dev depends on: ii libc6-dev 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Development Librari ii libfreetype6-dev 2.1.7-2.3 FreeType 2 font engine, developmen ii libgd2-noxpm 2.0.33-1.1 GD Graphics Library version 2 (wit ii libjpeg62-dev 6b-9 Development files for the IJG JPEG ii libpng12-dev [libpng12-0-de 1.2.8rel-1 PNG library - development ii zlib1g-dev 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - development -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 2.1.0-5 Just cleaning up old bugreports… If you believe that the bug is still present in stable version of Debian, please update the bug accordingly and reopen it. Thanks, -- Ondřej Surý [email protected]
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