added xfree() which takes a const pointer

Unfortunately, the C standard postulates that the argument to free()
must be non-const.  This does not makes sense, and virtually prevents
every pointer which must be freed at some time to be non-const.  Use
the deconst hack (sorry for that) to allow us to free constant
pointers.

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/utils.h b/src/utils.h
index 6a6e562cf..77e143702 100644
--- a/src/utils.h
+++ b/src/utils.h
@@ -76,6 +76,19 @@ mpd_malloc void *xrealloc(void *ptr, size_t size);
 
 mpd_malloc void *xcalloc(size_t nmemb, size_t size);
 
+/**
+ * free a const pointer - unfortunately free() expects a non-const
+ * pointer, for whatever reason
+ */
+static inline void xfree(const void *p)
+{
+	union {
+		const void *in;
+		void *out;
+	} deconst = { .in = p };
+	free(deconst.out);
+}
+
 char *parsePath(char *path);
 
 int set_nonblocking(int fd);