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, compiler support for const became a requirement.
It should be used consistently. To maintain backwards compatibility,
PNG_CONST is still maintained in deprecated form.
This updates libpng16 with all the test changes from libpng17,
including changes to pngvalid.c to ensure that the original,
distributed, version of contrib/visupng/cexcept.h can be used.
pngvalid contains the correction to the use of SAVE/STORE_
UNKNOWN_CHUNKS; a bug revealed by changes in libpng 1.7. More
tests contain the --strict option to detect warnings and the
pngvalid-standard test has been corrected so that it does not
turn on progresive-read (there is a separate test which does
that.)
Some signed/unsigned fixes have been made.
Signed-off-by: John Bowler <jbowler@acm.org>
a flag to change default. In 1.6.0 when the simplified API was used
to produce color-mapped output from an input image with no gamma
information the gamma assumed for the input could be different from
that assumed for non-color-mapped output. In particular 16-bit depth
input files were assumed to be sRGB encoded, whereas in the 'direct'
case they were assumed to have linear data. This was an error. The
fix makes the simplified API treat all input files the same way and
adds a new flag to the png_image::flags member to allow the
application/user to specify that 16-bit files contain sRGB data
rather than the default linear.
Fixed bugs in the pngpixel and makepng test programs.
