[pulseaudio-discuss] [patches] constification 1/2

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Wed, 2018-06-06 at 17:57 +0100, jnqnfe at gmail.com wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-06-04 at 13:28 +0300, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> > On Mon, 2018-05-28 at 01:49 +0100, jnqnfe at gmail.com wrote:
> > > Constification patch set ** 1 of 2 **
> > > 
> > > Collection of 16 patches constifying pointers in various parts of
> > > the
> > > API.
> > > 
> > > This collection of patches has interdependencies, they must be
> > > applied
> > > in (roughly) the given order.
> > > 
> > > These start off with constifying some core hashmap functions, which
> > > then allows various proplist related functions to be changed. A
> > > couple
> > > of tagstruct functions are in there, and finally a couple of
> > > context+proplist related functions.
> > > 
> > > I have not been in a position to try and compile these changes. I
> > > have
> > > identified one possible problem - the hashmap.c BY_HASH macro - I'm
> > > not
> > > certain offhand if a const version will be required or if the
> > > compiler
> > > will be happy casting as is. Otherwise I'm fairly certain there are
> > > no
> > > (obvious) issues.
> > 
> > Thanks! I pushed these to the "next" branch. The only issue was in
> > the
> > last patch - the function reused the constified variable when
> > creating
> > a new proplist, and the compiler didn't like when that temporary
> > proplist was freed. I took the liberty of amending your patch with a
> > fix.
> 
> No problem, thanks :)
> I noticed set 2/2 isn't there...

Yes, I didn't get around to 2/2 yet. I thought I'd review it today, but
I ended up doing other things instead... I'll be away until Monday, so
you'll need to wait for a bit still (unless someone else reviews the
patches).

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Tanu

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