As per the const correctness rules, top-level const-ness of data
in automatic scopes does not propagate outside of these scopes
(unlike const-ness at lower levels, such as pointers to const data).
Previously, const was used liberally, but inconsistently across the
libpng codebase. Using const wherever applicable is not incorrect.
However, _consistent_ use of const is difficult to maintain in such
conditions.
In conclusion, we shall continue to use const only where doing so is
strictly necessary:
1. If a function guarantees that it will not modify an argument
passed by pointer, the corresponding function parameter should be
a pointer-to-const (const T *).
2. Static data should not be modified, therefore it should be const.
Reference:
Google C++ Style Guide
https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html#Use_of_const
In v1.6.0, size_t became a required type. It should be used
consistently. To maintain backwards compatibility, png_size_t
is still maintained in deprecated form.
internal functions called by png_do_{read|write}_transformations static. On an
x86-64 DLL build (Gentoo Linux) this reduces the size of the text
segment of the DLL by 1208 bytes, about 0.6%. It also simplifies
maintenance by removing the declarations from pngpriv.h and allowing
easier changes to the internal interfaces.
function definitions before the place where they are called so that
they can be masde static. Move the intrapixel functions and the
grayscale palette builder out of the png?tran.c files. The latter
isn't a transform function and is no longer used internally, and the
former MNG specific functions are better placed in pngread/pngwrite.c
compiler issues slightly different warnings from those issued by the
current vesions of GCC. This eliminates those warnings by
adding/removing casts and small code rewrites.
Added new "png_structrp" typedef. Because of the
way libpng works both png_info and png_struct are always accessed via a
single pointer. This means adding C99 'restrict' to the pointer gives
the compiler some opportunity to optimize the code. This change allows that.
handling. Internal changes only except for a new option to avoid compiling
in the png_build_grayscale_palette API (which is not used at all internally.)
The main change is to move the transform tests (READ_TRANSFORMS,
WRITE_TRANSFORMS) up one level to the caller of the APIs.
Certain optional gcc warning flags resulted in warnings in libpng code.
With these changes only -Wconversion and -Wcast-qual cannot be turned on.
Changes are trivial rearrangements of code. -Wconversion is not possible
for pngrutil.c (because of the widespread use of += et al on variables
smaller than (int) or (unsigned int)) and -Wcast-qual is not possible
with pngwio.c and pngwutil.c because the 'write' callback and zlib
compression both fail to declare their input buffers with 'const'.
