RFR: 8281525: Enable Zc:strictStrings flag in Visual Studio build [v2]

Magnus Ihse Bursie ihse at openjdk.java.net
Tue Feb 22 17:16:51 UTC 2022


On Tue, 22 Feb 2022 16:43:28 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.
>> 
>> 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).
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> I verified that the build passes both with and without `--enable-debug`, both with VS2017 and VS2019.
>
> Daniel Jeliński has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Move strictStrings to toolchain_cflags

Now the build changes look good. Thanks!

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Marked as reviewed by ihse (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7565


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