Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > But that would get a bit awkward, because peek() returns a pointer, not > a value (as it should, because the type we're storing may be a compound > type, which we generally avoid passing or returning by value). So we'd > actually need to return a pointer to a zero-initialized dummy value. Not > impossible, but getting a bit odd. Do we have a guarantee that callers of the peek only look at, never touch, the location? As long as we make it return a "const *", it might be OK, but a quick look at commit-slab.h tells me that we do not say "const".
