# HG changeset patch
# User Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org>
# Date 1283108409 25200
# Node ID ba7492f9e2b8388b0cf253b149e236db3cc2c8da
# Parent  f42e8db53f78841321778dbf802b43765c22c584
While you can actually write to the error buffer, conceptually it's read-only.

diff -r f42e8db53f78 -r ba7492f9e2b8 include/SDL_error.h
--- a/include/SDL_error.h	Sat Aug 28 22:56:52 2010 -0700
+++ b/include/SDL_error.h	Sun Aug 29 12:00:09 2010 -0700
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 
 /* Public functions */
 extern DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_SetError(const char *fmt, ...);
-extern DECLSPEC char *SDLCALL SDL_GetError(void);
+extern DECLSPEC const char *SDLCALL SDL_GetError(void);
 extern DECLSPEC void SDLCALL SDL_ClearError(void);
 
 /**
diff -r f42e8db53f78 -r ba7492f9e2b8 src/SDL_error.c
--- a/src/SDL_error.c	Sat Aug 28 22:56:52 2010 -0700
+++ b/src/SDL_error.c	Sun Aug 29 12:00:09 2010 -0700
@@ -198,12 +198,12 @@
 }
 
 /* Available for backwards compatibility */
-char *
+const char *
 SDL_GetError(void)
 {
     static char errmsg[SDL_ERRBUFIZE];
 
-    return ((char *) SDL_GetErrorMsg(errmsg, SDL_ERRBUFIZE));
+    return SDL_GetErrorMsg(errmsg, SDL_ERRBUFIZE);
 }
 
 void