Re: [PATCH v2 03/10] Documentation: kunit: Clean up some string casts in examples

[Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@google.com>]

On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 12:36 PM David Gow <davidgow@google.com> wrote:
>
> As the type checking is no longer excessively strict, get rid of the
> unsightly (char*) casts -- and comment discussing them -- from the KUnit
> usage page.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>

Reviewed-by: Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@google.com>

Thanks!

> ---
>  Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst | 7 +++----
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst
> index 650f99590df5..756747417a19 100644
> --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst
> @@ -465,10 +465,9 @@ fictitious example for ``sha1sum(1)``
>
>  .. code-block:: c
>
> -       /* Note: the cast is to satisfy overly strict type-checking. */
>         #define TEST_SHA1(in, want) \
>                 sha1sum(in, out); \
> -               KUNIT_EXPECT_STREQ_MSG(test, (char *)out, want, "sha1sum(%s)", in);
> +               KUNIT_EXPECT_STREQ_MSG(test, out, want, "sha1sum(%s)", in);
>
>         char out[40];
>         TEST_SHA1("hello world",  "2aae6c35c94fcfb415dbe95f408b9ce91ee846ed");
> @@ -507,7 +506,7 @@ In some cases, it can be helpful to write a *table-driven test* instead, e.g.
>         };
>         for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(cases); ++i) {
>                 sha1sum(cases[i].str, out);
> -               KUNIT_EXPECT_STREQ_MSG(test, (char *)out, cases[i].sha1,
> +               KUNIT_EXPECT_STREQ_MSG(test, out, cases[i].sha1,
>                                       "sha1sum(%s)", cases[i].str);
>         }
>
> @@ -568,7 +567,7 @@ Reusing the same ``cases`` array from above, we can write the test as a
>                 struct sha1_test_case *test_param = (struct sha1_test_case *)(test->param_value);
>
>                 sha1sum(test_param->str, out);
> -               KUNIT_EXPECT_STREQ_MSG(test, (char *)out, test_param->sha1,
> +               KUNIT_EXPECT_STREQ_MSG(test, out, test_param->sha1,
>                                       "sha1sum(%s)", test_param->str);
>         }
>
> --
> 2.31.1.751.gd2f1c929bd-goog
>