Add NEWS entry for CHARACTER_DATA CHARACTER_POINTER change.

luke · luke · commit 231a17e6815b · 2025-11-11T18:34:10.000Z
git-svn-id: https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk@89003 00db46b3-68df-0310-9c12-caf00c1e9a41
diff --git a/doc/NEWS.Rd b/doc/NEWS.Rd
@@ -216,6 +216,10 @@
       \code{ENCLOS}, \code{Rf_isFrame}, \code{OBJECT},
       \code{SET_TYPEOF}, \code{ENVFLAGS}, \code{SET_ENVFLAGS},
       \code{SET_FORMALS}, \code{SET_BODY}, \code{SET_CLOENV}.      
+
+      \item The deprecated macros \code{CHARACTER_DATA} and
+      \code{CHARACTER_POINTER} now return \code{const} pointers since using
+      writable pointers in packages is not safe.
     }
   }
 

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`@@ -216,6 +216,10 @@`
`216`	`216`	`\code{ENCLOS}, \code{Rf_isFrame}, \code{OBJECT},`
`217`	`217`	`\code{SET_TYPEOF}, \code{ENVFLAGS}, \code{SET_ENVFLAGS},`
`218`	`218`	`\code{SET_FORMALS}, \code{SET_BODY}, \code{SET_CLOENV}.`
	`219`	`+`
	`220`	`+ \item The deprecated macros \code{CHARACTER_DATA} and`
	`221`	`+ \code{CHARACTER_POINTER} now return \code{const} pointers since using`
	`222`	`+ writable pointers in packages is not safe.`
`219`	`223`	`}`
`220`	`224`	`}`
`221`	`225`