diff --git a/.hgtags b/.hgtags
index 1d2a3d286ba0bb6648d2d01249fda2f48437c81d..a198de438f1156d4fdea5616abc1a09334830e8b 100644
--- a/.hgtags
+++ b/.hgtags
@@ -43,3 +43,4 @@ a50217eb3ee10b9f9547e0708e5c9625405083ef jdk7-b64
 bd31b30a5b21f20e42965b1633f18a5c7946d398 jdk7-b66
 a952aafd5181af953b0ef3010dbd2fcc28460e8a jdk7-b67
 b23d905cb5d3b382295240d28ab0bfb266b4503c jdk7-b68
+226b20019b1f020c09ea97d137d98e011ce65d76 jdk7-b69
diff --git a/src/windows/native/sun/jkernel/kernel.cpp b/src/windows/native/sun/jkernel/kernel.cpp
index 354b47cf2b5acf4bd7f24a502e3f36008994f215..e67bb3a059535b299f264ea74a4a968f8bf08278 100644
--- a/src/windows/native/sun/jkernel/kernel.cpp
+++ b/src/windows/native/sun/jkernel/kernel.cpp
@@ -116,11 +116,11 @@ char* getStringPlatformChars(JNIEnv* env, jstring jstr) {
     char *result = NULL;
     size_t len;
     const jchar* utf16 = env->GetStringChars(jstr, NULL);
-    len = wcstombs(NULL, utf16, env->GetStringLength(jstr) * 4) + 1;
+    len = wcstombs(NULL, (const wchar_t*)utf16, env->GetStringLength(jstr) * 4) + 1;
     if (len == -1)
         return NULL;
     result = (char*) malloc(len);
-    if (wcstombs(result, utf16, len) == -1)
+    if (wcstombs(result, (const wchar_t*)utf16, len) == -1)
         return NULL;
     env->ReleaseStringChars(jstr, utf16);
     return result;
@@ -640,7 +640,7 @@ JNIEXPORT void JNICALL Java_sun_jkernel_DownloadManager_startBackgroundDownloadW
 }
 
 
-void getParent(const TCHAR *path, TCHAR *dest) {
+void getParent(TCHAR *path, TCHAR *dest) {
     char* lastSlash = max(strrchr(path, '\\'), strrchr(path, '/'));
     if (lastSlash == NULL) {
         *dest = NULL;