Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Kunit: Fix example with compilation error

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On Sat, Jul 2, 2022 at 9:35 PM Maíra Canal <mairacanal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 7/2/22 01:32, David Gow wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 2, 2022 at 2:17 AM Maíra Canal <mairacanal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> The Parameterized Testing example contains a compilation error, as the
> >> signature for the description helper function should be void(*)(struct
> >> sha1_test_case *, char *), so the struct should not be const. This is
> >> warned by Clang:
> >>
> >> error: initialization of ‘void (*)(struct sha1_test_case *, char *)’
> >> from incompatible pointer type ‘void (*)(const struct sha1_test_case *,
> >> char *)’ [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
> >>     33 | KUNIT_ARRAY_PARAM(sha1, cases, case_to_desc);
> >>        |                                ^~~~~~~~~~~~
> >> ../include/kunit/test.h:1339:70: note: in definition of macro
> >> ‘KUNIT_ARRAY_PARAM’
> >> 1339 |                         void (*__get_desc)(typeof(__next), char *) = get_desc; \
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Maíra Canal <mairacanal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >
> > Thanks for catching this. The change to the documentation looks good,
> > but it may be better to change the array to be:
> > const struct cases[] = { ... }
>
> I missed that! Would you rather that I change it on a v2?
>
> Best Regards,
> - Maíra Canal
>

Yeah, I think that'd be best.

No need to hurry, though: Brendan et al are away for the US long weekend.

Cheers,
-- David

> > That matches most of the existing uses of this, such as the mctp test,
> > and encourages the use of const in cases (like the example) where it
> > makes sense.
> >
> > I'm okay with it either way, though: they're both valid.
> >
> > Reviewed-by: David Gow <davidgow@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Cheers,
> > -- David
> >
> >>  Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst | 2 +-
> >>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst
> >> index d62a04255c2e..8e72fb277058 100644
> >> --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst
> >> +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst
> >> @@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ By reusing the same ``cases`` array from above, we can write the test as a
> >>         };
> >>
> >>         // Need a helper function to generate a name for each test case.
> >> -       static void case_to_desc(const struct sha1_test_case *t, char *desc)
> >> +       static void case_to_desc(struct sha1_test_case *t, char *desc)
> >>         {
> >>                 strcpy(desc, t->str);
> >>         }
> >> --
> >> 2.36.1
> >>
> >> --




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