The leading blank lines are apparently an artefact of an older source
control system. They are not required and they look like accidents,
because starting a source file with a blank line is not a regular habit
of software developers nowadays.
This is a cherry-pick of commit 37cc20add8fb5b83bb5299a26cd3b41e0f776017
from branch 'libpng18'.
Signed-off-by: John Bowler <jbowler@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Cosmin Truta <ctruta@gmail.com>
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.
