Re: [GSoC][RFC][PATCH 1/2] STRBUF_INIT_CONST: a new way to initialize strbuf

> Your second patch catches cases where the strbuf functions want to write
> to the buffer. But we've always been pretty open about the fact that
> strbuf.buf is a writeable C-style string. So something like this:
> ...
> would generate no compile-time warnings, but would invoke undefined
> behavior (on my system it segfaults when run, but it could have even
> more confusing outcomes).

> If we want to pursue this direction, I think we'd do better to give each
> strbuf a matching array. Something like:
> ...
> So I think there are interesting directions here, but there's a lot of
> stuff to figure out.

> I notice you put GSoC in your subject line. If you're looking at this as
> a microproject, IMHO this is _way_ more complicated and subtle than a
> microproject should be. The goal there is to give something so easy that
> you get to focus on getting your patches in and interacting with the
> community. The scope I'd expect is more along the lines of compiling
> with -Wwrite-strings and cleaning up some of the locations that
> complain.