> On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > What happens if some structures cannot be made const because there is a > >> > reassignment somewhere? Is there any feedback about the problem? the constify plugin basically simulates what a source level 'const' would do (sets a specific flag on the 'tree' structure representing the so-called main variant of the ops type, see my h2hc13 presentation for details) and since this happens early in the frontend, the const violations will be reported by the compiler just like as it would otherwise report such source level problems. this way one can simply put a do_const attribute on a type, recompile the tree and see if the compiler ever reports an error to know if the given constification attempt is viable for the given type or not (and by finding the 'bad' assignments one can see where to consider rewriting the code perhaps, we did this a lot in PaX for example to achieve the current level of attack surface reduction). cheers, PaX Team -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
