From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "René Scharfe" <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] --pretty=format: on-demand format expansion
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 19:51:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071110005145.GC14992@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4734EB36.2030408@lsrfire.ath.cx>
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 12:20:22AM +0100, René Scharfe wrote:
> > This void cast is pointless, since all pointers types convert implicitly
> > to void pointers anyway. At best, it does nothing, and at worst, it
> > hides an actual type error if the function signature or the type of
> > 'commit' change.
>
> When commit (of type const struct commit*) is implicitly converted to
> void *, gcc complains because the "const" qualifier is silently dropped.
Bleh. You're right, of course. I don't like casting away constness, but
it is stupid for strbuf_expand to take a "const void *" since it has no
idea how it will be used (although I note your caching patch also neatly
does away with this, anyway).
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-10 0:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-09 0:49 [PATCH 2/2] --pretty=format: on-demand format expansion René Scharfe
2007-11-09 1:24 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-09 21:13 ` René Scharfe
2007-11-09 22:18 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-09 22:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-09 4:50 ` Jeff King
2007-11-09 23:16 ` René Scharfe
2007-11-10 0:31 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-10 0:49 ` Jeff King
2007-11-10 0:46 ` Jeff King
2007-11-10 11:12 ` René Scharfe
2007-11-10 16:07 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-10 16:24 ` René Scharfe
2007-11-10 20:36 ` Jeff King
2007-11-10 20:34 ` Jeff King
2007-11-11 8:13 ` Jeff King
2007-11-10 11:14 ` [PATCH 1/3] --pretty=format: parse commit message only once René Scharfe
2007-11-10 11:16 ` [PATCH 2/3] add strbuf_adddup() René Scharfe
2007-11-10 11:18 ` [PATCH 3/3] --format=pretty: avoid calculating expensive expansions twice René Scharfe
2007-11-11 10:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-09 4:52 ` [PATCH 2/2] --pretty=format: on-demand format expansion Jeff King
2007-11-09 23:20 ` René Scharfe
2007-11-10 0:51 ` Jeff King [this message]
2007-11-09 23:39 ` Paul Mackerras
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