RFR: 8281525: Enable Zc:strictStrings flag in Visual Studio build
David Holmes
dholmes at openjdk.java.net
Tue Feb 22 12:26:52 UTC 2022
On Mon, 21 Feb 2022 19:55:14 GMT, Daniel Jeliński <djelinski at openjdk.org> wrote:
> Please review this PR that enables [Zc:strictStrings](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/zc-strictstrings-disable-string-literal-type-conversion?view=msvc-170) compiler flag, which makes assigning a string literal to a non-const pointer a compile-time error.
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> This type of assignment is [disallowed by C++ standard since C++11](https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/string_literal). Writing to a string literal through a non-const pointer [produces a run-time error](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/cpp/string-and-character-literals-cpp?view=msvc-170#microsoft-specific-1).
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> The included code changes are trivial; I added `const` keyword to variable and parameter declarations where needed, and added explicit casts to non-const pointers where adding `const` was not feasible.
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> I verified that the build passes both with and without `--enable-debug`, both with VS2017 and VS2019.
Hi Daniel,
Hotspot changes look fine.
Some of the casts in other code look odd to me, but I'll leave that for the security-libs folk to comment on.
Thanks,
David
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Marked as reviewed by dholmes (Reviewer).
PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7565
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