in RESULT. Reads until a non-hex digit is seen. Returns a pointer
to the terminating character. */
-extern char *unpack_varlen_hex (char *buff, ULONGEST *result);
+extern const char *unpack_varlen_hex (const char *buff, ULONGEST *result);
/* HEX is a string of characters representing hexadecimal digits.
Convert pairs of hex digits to bytes and store sequentially into