From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Hamza Mahfooz <someguy@effective-light.com>,
Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/5] grep.c: mark eol/bol and derived as "const char * const"
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2021 15:56:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874kab5r63.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YUowCkmWqKgIldNz@coredump.intra.peff.net>
On Tue, Sep 21 2021, Jeff King wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 05:17:57PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 21 2021, Jeff King wrote:
>>
>> > On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 02:45:16PM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>> >
>> >> I think that generally git's codebase could use going beyond just
>> >> "const char *" when a "const char * const" would suffice, for some
>> >> reason we seem to mostly use it for the static usage variables.
>> >
>> > I didn't dig up the references in the list archive, but I feel like
>> > we've had this discussion long ago. One of the reasons not to do so is
>> > that it pollutes the function's interface with internal details.[...]
>>
>> Are there cases in my conversion where the caller has to do anything
>> special that they didn't before? These are also all static functions, so
>> it's all internal details exported to nobody.
>
> No, they don't have to do anything differently. I just meant that it
> clutters the interface when a human is reading it.
Fair enough, to this human reading it (and I'm not new to the grep.c
code) I find myself trying and failing to mentally track what gets
modified where, but anyway, I think that point is understood and I won't
argue for it ad nauseum.
Just replied to say to Junio's <xmqqh7ec77s3.fsf@gitster.g> in the
side-thread:
> Yes. "This pointer is not modified" is a good thing to have inside
> an implementation, but the callers should not have to care.
That I just don't understand, i.e. how the variable is defined in this
6/5 pertains to how it gets used /inside/ the function in this case, the
caller code doesn't have to care, but perhaps I'm missing something...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-23 13:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-21 3:45 [PATCH 0/5] const-correctness in grep.c Jeff King
2021-09-21 3:46 ` [PATCH 1/5] grep: stop modifying buffer in strip_timestamp Jeff King
2021-09-21 5:18 ` Carlo Arenas
2021-09-21 5:24 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-09-21 5:40 ` Carlo Arenas
2021-09-21 5:43 ` Jeff King
2021-09-21 6:42 ` Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
2021-09-21 7:37 ` René Scharfe
2021-09-21 14:24 ` Jeff King
2021-09-21 21:02 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-22 20:20 ` Jeff King
2021-09-23 0:53 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-21 3:48 ` [PATCH 2/5] grep: stop modifying buffer in show_line() Jeff King
2021-09-21 4:22 ` Taylor Blau
2021-09-21 4:42 ` Jeff King
2021-09-21 4:45 ` Taylor Blau
2021-09-21 3:48 ` [PATCH 3/5] grep: stop modifying buffer in grep_source_1() Jeff King
2021-09-21 3:49 ` [PATCH 4/5] grep: mark "haystack" buffers as const Jeff King
2021-09-21 12:04 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-21 14:27 ` Jeff King
2021-09-21 3:51 ` [PATCH 5/5] grep: store grep_source buffer " Jeff King
2021-09-21 4:30 ` [PATCH 0/5] const-correctness in grep.c Taylor Blau
2021-09-21 12:07 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-21 14:49 ` Jeff King
2021-09-21 12:45 ` [PATCH 6/5] grep.c: mark eol/bol and derived as "const char * const" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-21 14:53 ` Jeff King
2021-09-21 15:17 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-21 19:18 ` Jeff King
2021-09-23 13:56 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2021-09-24 4:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-22 19:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-22 18:57 ` [PATCH 0/5] const-correctness in grep.c Junio C Hamano
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