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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org,
	"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: Wed, 22 Sep 2021 12:02:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqh7ec77s3.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YUnx7gt0KQNRlhuZ@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Tue, 21 Sep 2021 10:53:34 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> 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. The
> caller does not care whether the function is going to modify the pointer
> itself, because it is passed by value. You could apply the same logic
> that we should be passing "const int", and so on.

Yes.  "This pointer is not modified" is a good thing to have inside
an implementation, but the callers should not have to care.

Thanks.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-09-22 19:02 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
2021-09-24  4:22           ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-22 19:02     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2021-09-22 18:57 ` [PATCH 0/5] const-correctness in grep.c Junio C Hamano

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