Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] fsck.c: Change the type of fsck_ident()'s first argument

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Hi,

On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 4:22 AM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 02:51:29AM +0800, Yuxuan Shui wrote:
>
>> Since fsck_ident doesn't change the content of **ident, the type of
>> ident could be const char **.
>
> Unfortunately, const double-pointers in C are a bit tricky, and a
> pointer to "char *" cannot automatically be passed as a pointer to
> "const char *".

Thanks for pointing this out, I split the changes in a wrong way. I'll
fix this in next version of this patch.

>
> I think you want this on top:
>
> diff --git a/fsck.c b/fsck.c
> index 1789c34..7776660 100644
> --- a/fsck.c
> +++ b/fsck.c
> @@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ static int fsck_ident(const char **ident, struct object *obj, fsck_error error_f
>
>  static int fsck_commit(struct commit *commit, fsck_error error_func)
>  {
> -       char *buffer = commit->buffer;
> +       const char *buffer = commit->buffer;
>         unsigned char tree_sha1[20], sha1[20];
>         struct commit_graft *graft;
>         int parents = 0;
>
> Otherwise, gcc will complain about incompatible pointer types.
>
> -Peff

-- 

Regards
Yuxuan Shui
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