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SubjectRe: [PATCH] [PERF] (Userspace Tools) Fix a compilation error with -fstack-protector and -Werror
Em Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 01:49:04PM +0200, Ingo Molnar escreveu:
>
> * Brian Gitonga Marete <marete@toshnix.com> wrote:
>
> > > OK. Now that I actually look closely at that fragment I can see its useless to
> > > create the automatic arrays. Local string literals would also work (i.e. just
> > > pass `"Yes"' and `"No"' to newtWinChoice). But can also do what you suggested if
> > > it is anticipated that they will be used somewhere else within the file at some
> > > other time -- Currently they are not.
> >
> > Oops. Sorry. What I suggested won't work because of the -Wwrite-strings default
> > option. Which actually makes me understand why the original author of the code
> > made it the way it is. Your suggestion of file-scope, static does solve the
> > problem.
>
> Btw., -Wwrite-strings has proven to be a really useful warning in practice, in that
> it ensured that we propagate string immutability/const-ness as widely as possible.
> This resulted is cleaner perf code in the long run.
>
> Here we cannot fix the Newt prototype (it's an existing library outside of our
> control) to take a const so we have to do the (mild) workaround of moving it to file
> scope. (if this becomes common then we'd have to re-evaluate the use of this
> warning)
>
> I think Arnaldo has plans to get rid of the libnewt dependency altogether - that
> might be a fix too.

Yeah, but for now I'll just reap the results of this long discussion
about this issue. :)

- Arnaldo


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