Re: [PATCH 1/2] pkt-line: fix declaration of `set_packet_header()`

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I do have a slight preference for going the _other_ way. There is no
> need to mark the parameter as const in the definition. It is passed by
> value, so nobody except the function body cares either way. And we have
> many function bodies where value-passed parameters (or local variables!)
> are not marked as const, even though they are only assigned to once.

That would be more like this patch, then?

-- >8 --
Subject: pkt-line: drop 'const'-ness of a param to set_packet_header() 

The fact that the incoming parameter is used as read-only in the
fuction is an implementation detail that the callers should not have
to know, and the prototype defined for the function in pkt-line.h
lacked the "const" for that reason, but apparently some compilers
complain about the parameter type mismatch.

Let's squelch it by removing the "const" that is pointless for a
small function like this, which would not help optimizing compilers
nor reading humans that much.

Noticed-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 pkt-line.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pkt-line.c b/pkt-line.c
index c9ed780d0b..a0e87b1e81 100644
--- a/pkt-line.c
+++ b/pkt-line.c
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ void packet_buf_delim(struct strbuf *buf)
 	strbuf_add(buf, "0001", 4);
 }
 
-void set_packet_header(char *buf, const int size)
+void set_packet_header(char *buf, int size)
 {
 	static char hexchar[] = "0123456789abcdef";