On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 02:50:47PM +0000, Julia Lawall wrote: > > > On Mon, 9 Nov 2015, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > > Actually, it looks like Emese Revfy is going to merge the GCC plugin > > constify stuff sooner rather than later so maybe adding all these consts > > isn't going to be needed. > > Is there any advantage of const over the plugin? The consts are easy to > add.
Less syntax. It's a whitelist instead of blacklist so we don't miss anything. > > Does the plugin help for structures that have non-function fields? Yeah. You can mark a struct as __do_const in the .h file and it will make them all const automatically. regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
