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Bug 421

Summary: Missing const specification forces use of const_cast in application code
Product: SDL Reporter: esigra
Component: videoAssignee: Ryan C. Gordon <icculus>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: HG 1.2   
Hardware: Other   
OS: Linux   
Attachments: Patch against SDL-1.2.11 that fixes 2 occurences of the bug for me.

Description esigra 2007-03-26 02:06:05 UTC 
Some const specifications are missing in the SDL code. This forces us who develop applications based on SDL to use const_cast. This is really ugly and needs to be fixed. For example the first parameter of SDL_MapRGB and SDL_MapRGBA.
Comment 1 esigra 2007-03-26 02:08:07 UTC 
Created attachment 203 [details]
Patch against SDL-1.2.11 that fixes 2 occurences of the bug for me.
Comment 2 Ryan C. Gordon 2007-04-04 02:43:58 UTC 
Fixed in svn revision #3008 for the 1.2 branch and #3009 for the 1.3 branch.

Thanks!

--ryan.
Comment 3 esigra 2008-04-09 11:46:46 UTC 
This bug also needs to be fixed for SDL_GetRGB and SDL_GetRGBA (those should not change the format of the surface either). Until this is fixed, I still need to const_cast the format parameter in calls to those functions.
Comment 4 Sam Lantinga 2009-04-13 02:04:28 UTC 
This was fixed for SDL 1.2 in revision 4487.  This was already fixed for SDL 1.3.

Thanks!