From: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
"Derrick Stolee" <stolee@gmail.com>,
"Elijah Newren" <newren@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dir: avoid -Wdiscarded-qualifiers in remove_path()
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:22:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a4wgwn18.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqbjgx6obs.fsf@gitster.g>
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> When building with glibc-2.43 there is the following warning:
>>
>> dir.c:3526:15: warning: assignment discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers]
>> 3526 | slash = strrchr(name, '/');
>> | ^
>>
>> In this case we use a non-const pointer to get the last slash of the
>> unwritable file name, and then use it again to write in the strdup'd
>> file name.
>>
>> We can avoid this warning and make the code a bit more clear by using a
>> separate variable to access the original argument and it's strdup'd
>> copy.
>
> "it's" -> "its", if I am reading the above correctly?
Yep, my mistake. Assuming you can fix that locally?
Thanks,
Collin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-10 0:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-09 3:23 [PATCH] dir: avoid -Wdiscarded-qualifiers in remove_path() Collin Funk
2026-03-09 14:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-03-10 0:22 ` Collin Funk [this message]
2026-03-10 0:57 ` Junio C Hamano
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