On 28.06.2017 19:27, David Hildenbrand wrote: > On 28.06.2017 14:04, Thomas Huth wrote: >> So we make sure that we do not accidentially write to constant > > "accidentally" (I wouldn't know if Thunderbird wouldn't tell me ;) ) Oh, ok. Paolo, Radim, could you please fix it when picking up the patch? >> strings. Also add some missing "const" qualifiers in the code to >> avoid that we get compiler warnings now. >> >> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> This patch supersedes my previous patch "Declare the prefix string >> variable in va_report() as const" >> >> Makefile | 2 +- >> lib/report.c | 6 +++--- >> x86/msr.c | 4 ++-- >> x86/pmu.c | 2 +- >> 4 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile >> index 933b9f0..e79cf93 100644 >> --- a/Makefile >> +++ b/Makefile >> @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ cc-option = $(shell if $(CC) $(1) -S -o /dev/null -xc /dev/null \ >> > /dev/null 2>&1; then echo "$(1)"; else echo "$(2)"; fi ;) >> >> CFLAGS += -g >> -CFLAGS += $(autodepend-flags) -Wall -Werror >> +CFLAGS += $(autodepend-flags) -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Werror > > > I assume this option has been around for quite some while, so no > reasonable gcc will spit fire. A very quick search revealed that it is at least 14 years old and GCC 4.4 already contained it. Likely even earlier versions. I think we do not really support older versions anymore, so that should be ok. > Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks! Thomas