Re: [PATCH 07/19] http: do not assign string constant to non-const field
Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> writes:
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> In `write_accept_language()`, we put all acceptable languages into an
> array. While all entries in that array are allocated strings, the final
> entry in that array is a string constant. This is fine because we
> explicitly skip over the last entry when freeing the array, but will
> cause warnings once we enable `-Wwrite-strings`.
>
> Adapt the code to also allocate the final entry.
>
> Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
> ---
> http.c | 5 ++---
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/http.c b/http.c
> index 67cc47d28f..2dea2d03da 100644
> --- a/http.c
> +++ b/http.c
> @@ -1974,7 +1974,7 @@ static void write_accept_language(struct strbuf *buf)
>
> /* add '*' */
> REALLOC_ARRAY(language_tags, num_langs + 1);
> - language_tags[num_langs++] = "*"; /* it's OK; this won't be freed */
> + language_tags[num_langs++] = xstrdup("*");
>
> /* compute decimal_places */
> for (max_q = 1, decimal_places = 0;
> @@ -2004,8 +2004,7 @@ static void write_accept_language(struct strbuf *buf)
> }
> }
>
> - /* free language tags -- last one is a static '*' */
> - for (i = 0; i < num_langs - 1; i++)
> + for (i = 0; i < num_langs; i++)
> free(language_tags[i]);
> free(language_tags);
> }Makes sense, especially that this is done only once per process.