diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 1da405a202c..6f765e123d9 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2012-02-14  Kevin Buettner  <kevinb@redhat.com>
+
+	* rl78-tdep.c (rl78_skip_prologue): Make `const' the type of
+	the name parameter being passed to find_pc_partial_function().
+
 2012-02-14  Jan Kratochvil  <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
 
 	* MAINTAINERS: Step down from being ia64 target maintainer.
diff --git a/gdb/rl78-tdep.c b/gdb/rl78-tdep.c
index 6e4d784f6d6..2cd80051bf0 100644
--- a/gdb/rl78-tdep.c
+++ b/gdb/rl78-tdep.c
@@ -636,7 +636,7 @@ rl78_pointer_to_address (struct gdbarch *gdbarch,
 static CORE_ADDR
 rl78_skip_prologue (struct gdbarch *gdbarch, CORE_ADDR pc)
 {
-  char *name;
+  const char *name;
   CORE_ADDR func_addr, func_end;
   struct rl78_prologue p;