Re: [PATCH] Add -Wcast-qual flag

["Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com>]

>>> Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com> 21.12.06 11:41 >>>
>On 21/12/06 10:05, "Christoph Egger" <Christoph.Egger@amd.com> wrote:
>
>> The xen-cast.diff adds the -Wcast-qual flag.
>
>We don't enable this flag precisely because we end up needing to scatter
>const all over the place like confetti. I'm not convinced that use of const
>improves code quality. I fear we'd end up with 'const foo * const bar' all
>over the place -- ugly and confusing to most programmers (who frequently
>mess up const placement, in my experience).

While I'd really like to see all Xen code become const-correct (because I do
believe this helps with code quality, like does marking read only data read
only in the page tables), I don't think adding the warning here is
appropriate - after all, in C this is one of the purposes of adding explicit
casts (although I agree it's questionable to use casts for this purpose).
And no, I don't think that many people screwing up const placement is a
proper argument for not using const where possible.

Jan