I submitted this patch twice to gtk-devel-list, and received no comments,

I submitted this patch twice to gtk-devel-list, and received no comments, so
am committing it.  Although not exhaustively tested, I have been using this
gtk+ for a week w/o problems, and I did read the code to ensure that nothing
ever writes to these data structures. If by chance people encounter SEGV's in
gtk+ code that is setting values in global data structures, this patch could
be a possible culprit.

1998-11-30  Elliot Lee  <sopwith@cuc.ml.org>

	* {gdk,gtk}/*.c: Make read-only data structures "static const" to
	allow them to be shared, mainly including (but not limited to) the
	GtkTypeInfo structures for each class.

	* gtk/gtkfilesel.c: Add /net to the "leave me alone" directory listing.

4 files changed, 12 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/gdk/x11/gdkinput.c b/gdk/x11/gdkinput.c
index c0f199fae9..a11da09f22 100644
--- a/gdk/x11/gdkinput.c
+++ b/gdk/x11/gdkinput.c
@@ -38,9 +38,9 @@ static GdkDevicePrivate *gdk_input_find_device (guint32 id);
 
 /* Incorporate the specific routines depending on compilation options */
 
-static GdkAxisUse gdk_input_core_axes[] = { GDK_AXIS_X, GDK_AXIS_Y };
+static const GdkAxisUse gdk_input_core_axes[] = { GDK_AXIS_X, GDK_AXIS_Y };
 
-static GdkDeviceInfo gdk_input_core_info =
+static const GdkDeviceInfo gdk_input_core_info =
 {
   GDK_CORE_POINTER,
   "Core Pointer",
diff --git a/gdk/x11/gdkmain-x11.c b/gdk/x11/gdkmain-x11.c
index 36e0fb1438..f504ea313a 100644
--- a/gdk/x11/gdkmain-x11.c
+++ b/gdk/x11/gdkmain-x11.c
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ static gulong base_id;
 static gint autorepeat;
 
 #ifdef G_ENABLE_DEBUG
-static GDebugKey gdk_debug_keys[] = {
+static const GDebugKey gdk_debug_keys[] = {
   {"events",	    GDK_DEBUG_EVENTS},
   {"misc",	    GDK_DEBUG_MISC},
   {"dnd",	    GDK_DEBUG_DND},
@@ -1504,8 +1504,8 @@ gdk_pointer_grab (GdkWindow *	  window,
 		  guint32	  time)
 {
   /*  From gdkwindow.c	*/
-  extern int nevent_masks;
-  extern int event_mask_table[];
+  extern const int nevent_masks;
+  extern const int event_mask_table[];
   
   gint return_val;
   GdkWindowPrivate *window_private;
diff --git a/gdk/x11/gdkvisual-x11.c b/gdk/x11/gdkvisual-x11.c
index 693020ef61..ebdcccb127 100644
--- a/gdk/x11/gdkvisual-x11.c
+++ b/gdk/x11/gdkvisual-x11.c
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ static gint navailable_types;
 
 #ifdef G_ENABLE_DEBUG
 
-static gchar* visual_names[] =
+static const gchar* visual_names[] =
 {
   "static gray",
   "grayscale",
@@ -61,8 +61,8 @@ static GHashTable *visual_hash = NULL;
 void
 gdk_visual_init (void)
 {
-  static gint possible_depths[7] = { 32, 24, 16, 15, 8, 4, 1 };
-  static GdkVisualType possible_types[6] =
+  static const gint possible_depths[7] = { 32, 24, 16, 15, 8, 4, 1 };
+  static const GdkVisualType possible_types[6] =
     {
       GDK_VISUAL_DIRECT_COLOR,
       GDK_VISUAL_TRUE_COLOR,
@@ -72,8 +72,8 @@ gdk_visual_init (void)
       GDK_VISUAL_STATIC_GRAY
     };
 
-  static gint npossible_depths = 7;
-  static gint npossible_types = 6;
+  static const gint npossible_depths = sizeof(possible_depths)/sizeof(gint);
+  static const gint npossible_types = sizeof(possible_types)/sizeof(GdkVisualType);
 
   XVisualInfo *visual_list;
   XVisualInfo visual_template;
diff --git a/gdk/x11/gdkwindow-x11.c b/gdk/x11/gdkwindow-x11.c
index 09399dcf1a..c8a42595ed 100644
--- a/gdk/x11/gdkwindow-x11.c
+++ b/gdk/x11/gdkwindow-x11.c
@@ -33,8 +33,7 @@
 #include <X11/extensions/shape.h>
 #endif
 
-int nevent_masks = 20;
-int event_mask_table[20] =
+const int event_mask_table[20] =
 {
   ExposureMask,
   PointerMotionMask,
@@ -57,6 +56,7 @@ int event_mask_table[20] =
   0,				/* PROXIMTY_OUT */
   SubstructureNotifyMask
 };
+const int nevent_masks = sizeof(event_mask_table)/sizeof(int);
 
 static gboolean gdk_window_have_shape_ext (void);