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Bug 1420

Summary: SDLNet_Read fails when passing a const pointer
Product: SDL_net Reporter: Felix Geyer <debfx>
Component: miscAssignee: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: 1.2.8   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   

Description Felix Geyer 2012-02-17 05:32:44 UTC 
SDLNet_Read16 and SDLNet_Read32 fail when passing a const pointer:
> error: reinterpret_cast from type 'const char*' to type 'Uint32* {aka unsigned int*}' casts away qualifiers

The actual SDLNet_Read* functions are only defined for "void *" but the macros previously allowed passing const pointers as they used c-style casts.

This can probably be fixed by casting to "const Uint16 *" / "const Uint32 *".
Comment 1 Sam Lantinga 2013-06-07 02:40:49 UTC 
Fixed, thanks!
http://hg.libsdl.org/SDL_net/rev/fbd60945674e