It is more virtual-memory efficient to have read-only data in the .text
segment than in the .data segment. See Ulrich Drepper's famous paper
<https://akkadia.org/drepper/dsohowto.pdf>, section 2.4.2.
2023-09-22 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org>
striconveh, *vasnprintf, vasnwprintf: Make more virtual-memory friendly.
* lib/striconveh.c (mem_cd_iconveh_internal): Mark hex as 'const'.
* lib/vasnprintf.c (wctomb_fallback): Likewise.
diff --git a/lib/striconveh.c b/lib/striconveh.c
index 0209dc6cf2..be60407373 100644
--- a/lib/striconveh.c
+++ b/lib/striconveh.c
@@ -810,7 +810,7 @@ mem_cd_iconveh_internal (const char *src, size_t srclen,
if (handler == iconveh_escape_sequence)
{
- static char hex[16] = "0123456789ABCDEF";
+ static char const hex[16] = "0123456789ABCDEF";
scratchlen = 0;
scratchbuf[scratchlen++] = '\\';
if (uc < 0x10000)
diff --git a/lib/vasnprintf.c b/lib/vasnprintf.c
index 2d9aa977ec..815c7c5098 100644
--- a/lib/vasnprintf.c
+++ b/lib/vasnprintf.c
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ local_wcsnlen (const wchar_t *s, size_t maxlen)
static size_t
wctomb_fallback (char *s, wchar_t wc)
{
- static char hex[16] = "0123456789ABCDEF";
+ static char const hex[16] = "0123456789ABCDEF";
s[0] = '\\';
if (sizeof (wchar_t) > 2 && wc > 0xffff)
