Reduce copying in sending service responses.

runtime/platform/text_buffer.cc

 // Copyright (c) 2012, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
 // for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
 // BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
 
 #include "platform/text_buffer.h"
 
 #include "platform/assert.h"
 #include "platform/globals.h"
 #include "platform/utils.h"
 #include "vm/os.h"
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   buf_ = NULL;
 }
 
 
 void TextBuffer::Clear() {
   msg_len_ = 0;
   buf_[0] = '\0';
 }
 
 
-const char* TextBuffer::Steal() {
-  const char* r = buf_;
+char* TextBuffer::Steal() {
+  char* r = buf_;
   buf_ = NULL;
   buf_size_ = 0;
   msg_len_ = 0;
   return r;
 }
 
 
 void TextBuffer::AddChar(char ch) {
   EnsureCapacity(sizeof(ch));
   buf_[msg_len_] = ch;
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     // the debugger front-end.
     intptr_t new_size = buf_size_ + len + kBufferSpareCapacity;
     char* new_buf = reinterpret_cast<char*>(realloc(buf_, new_size));
     ASSERT(new_buf != NULL);
     buf_ = new_buf;
     buf_size_ = new_size;
   }
 }
 
 }  // namespace dart