Re: [PATCH] bloom: remove a misleading const qualifier
Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com> writes:
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> When building with glibc-2.43 there is the following warning:
>
> bloom.c: In function ‘get_or_compute_bloom_filter’:
> bloom.c:515:52: warning: initialization discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers]
> 515 | char *last_slash = strrchr(path, '/');
> | ^~~~~~~
>
> In this case, we always write through "path" through the "last_slash"
> pointer. Therefore, the const qualifier on "path" is misleading and we
> can just remove it.
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> Signed-off-by: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com>
> ---
> bloom.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/bloom.c b/bloom.c
> index 77a6fddf72..a805ac0c29 100644
> --- a/bloom.c
> +++ b/bloom.c
> @@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ struct bloom_filter *get_or_compute_bloom_filter(struct repository *r,
> struct hashmap_iter iter;
>
> for (i = 0; i < diff_queued_diff.nr; i++) {
> - const char *path = diff_queued_diff.queue[i]->two->path;
> + char *path = diff_queued_diff.queue[i]->two->path;
>
> /*
> * Add each leading directory of the changed file, i.e. for
> @@ -523,7 +523,7 @@ struct bloom_filter *get_or_compute_bloom_filter(struct repository *r,
> free(e);
>
> if (!last_slash)
> - last_slash = (char*)path;
> + last_slash = path;
> *last_slash = '\0';
>
> } while (*path);