Re: [PATCH 07/14] tools/xl: Use const whenever we point to literal strings

[Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>]

On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 04:57:06PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
> From: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
> 
> literal strings are not meant to be modified. So we should use const
> char * rather than char * when we want to store a pointer to them.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com>
> ---
> diff --git a/tools/xl/xl.h b/tools/xl/xl.h
> index 137a29077c1e..3052e3db0072 100644
> --- a/tools/xl/xl.h
> +++ b/tools/xl/xl.h
> @@ -21,13 +21,13 @@
>  #include <xentoollog.h>
>  
>  struct cmd_spec {
> -    char *cmd_name;
> +    const char *cmd_name;
>      int (*cmd_impl)(int argc, char **argv);
>      int can_dryrun;
>      int modifies;
> -    char *cmd_desc;
> -    char *cmd_usage;
> -    char *cmd_option;
> +    const char *cmd_desc;
> +    const char *cmd_usage;
> +    const char *cmd_option;
>  };

Those const in cmd_spec feels almost the wrong things to do, but it is
also unlikely that we would want to modify the strings in a cmd_spec so
I guess that's fine.

I'm thinking that `cmd_table` should be const as well (I mean
const struct cmd_spec cmd_table[];) as there is no reason to modify the
entries once they are in the table. I'll send a patch.


The rest looks good.
Reviewed-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>

Thanks,

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Anthony PERARD