On Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:46:20 GMT, Jasmine Karthikeyan 
<[email protected]> wrote:

>> Hi all, this is a quick patch to fix a build issue I encountered when 
>> updating my Linux system. [Glibc 
>> 2.43](https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2026-01/msg00005.html) 
>> changes the definition of some string related functions to return `const 
>> char*` when provided a `const char*` parameter, rather than the previous 
>> behavior of returning `char*`. I've fixed this by applying the `const` 
>> modifier, and casting to `char*` when needed. This should be 
>> backwards-compatible since assigning a non-const pointer to const is an 
>> implicit conversion. Thoughts and comments would be appreciated on whether 
>> this is the best way to fix this issue. Thanks!
>> 
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>
> Jasmine Karthikeyan has updated the pull request with a new target base due 
> to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes 
> brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains three additional 
> commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - Apply review changes
>  - Merge branch 'master' into fix-8378180
>  - Fix discarded const qualifiers

LGTM

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Marked as reviewed by djelinski (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/29929#pullrequestreview-4096460661

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