Re: [BlueZ PATCH v3 4/4] fixing const decoration warnins on options.

[Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.dentz@gmail.com>]

Hi Alain,

On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 8:41 AM Alain Michaud <alainm@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> This changes fixes const decoration warnins on options.

What us this fixing?

> ---
>
> Changes in v3: None
> Changes in v2: None
>
>  src/main.c | 12 ++++++------
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/main.c b/src/main.c
> index ca27f313d..cea50a3d2 100644
> --- a/src/main.c
> +++ b/src/main.c
> @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ static enum {
>         MPS_MULTIPLE,
>  } mps = MPS_OFF;
>
> -static const char *supported_options[] = {
> +static const char * const supported_options[] = {
>         "Name",
>         "Class",
>         "DiscoverableTimeout",
> @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ static const char * const controller_options[] = {
>         NULL
>  };
>
> -static const char *policy_options[] = {
> +static const char * const policy_options[] = {
>         "ReconnectUUIDs",
>         "ReconnectAttempts",
>         "ReconnectIntervals",
> @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ static const char *policy_options[] = {
>         NULL
>  };
>
> -static const char *gatt_options[] = {
> +static const char * const gatt_options[] = {
>         "Cache",
>         "KeySize",
>         "ExchangeMTU",
> @@ -146,8 +146,8 @@ static const char *gatt_options[] = {
>  };
>
>  static const struct group_table {
> -       const char *name;
> -       const char **options;
> +       const char * const name;
> +       const char * const * const options;
>  } valid_groups[] = {
>         { "General",    supported_options },
>         { "Controller", controller_options },
> @@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ static enum jw_repairing_t parse_jw_repairing(const char *jw_repairing)
>
>
>  static void check_options(GKeyFile *config, const char *group,
> -                                               const char **options)
> +                                       const char * const * const options)
>  {
>         char **keys;
>         int i;
> --
> 2.27.0.rc0.183.gde8f92d652-goog
>

I wonder how usufull is to tell it is a constant pointer to a constant
character given that is so rarely in the kernel and userspace,
something like const char * const * const would be very hard to keep
it readable.

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Luiz Augusto von Dentz