On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The return value from logmsg_reencode may be either a newly
> allocated buffer or a pointer to the existing commit->buffer.
> We would not want the caller to accidentally free() or
> modify the latter, so let's mark it as const. We can cast
> away the constness in logmsg_free, but only once we have
> determined that it is a free-able buffer.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> index 71e2337..47e5b7a 100644
> --- a/revision.c
> +++ b/revision.c
> @@ -2788,7 +2788,7 @@ static int commit_match(struct commit *commit, struct rev_info *opt)
> {
> int retval;
> const char *encoding;
> - char *message;
> + const char *message;
> struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
>
> if (!opt->grep_filter.pattern_list && !opt->grep_filter.header_list)
> @@ -2830,12 +2830,18 @@ static int commit_match(struct commit *commit, struct rev_info *opt)
> format_display_notes(commit->object.sha1, &buf, encoding, 1);
> }
>
> - /* Find either in the original commit message, or in the temporary */
> + /* Find either in the original commit message, or in the temporary.
Style:
/*
* Find either...
*/
> + * Note that we cast away the constness of "message" here. It is
> + * const because it may come from the cached commit buffer. That's OK,
> + * because we know that it is modifiable heap memory, and that while
> + * grep_buffer may modify it for speed, it will restore any
> + * changes before returning.
> + */
> if (buf.len)
> retval = grep_buffer(&opt->grep_filter, buf.buf, buf.len);
> else
> retval = grep_buffer(&opt->grep_filter,
> - message, strlen(message));
> + (char *)message, strlen(message));
> strbuf_release(&buf);
> logmsg_free(message, commit);
> return retval;
> --
> 2.0.0.729.g520999f
>
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