Re: svn_fs__parse_skel prototype question

On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 01:14:29PM -0800, Greg Stein wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 02:10:01PM -0500, Greg Hudson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 13:23, Philip Martin wrote:
> > > I don't understand the comment about not using 'const char*' for DATA.
> > > If svn_fs__parse_skel is not going to change DATA then 'const char*'
> > > is exactly what is wanted, and making it const in no way constrains
> > > the callers.
> >
> > The created skel will point into DATA, not a copy of it. Data pointed
> > to by skels can be modified. (I don't know if we ever do modify data
> > pointed to by skels, and I'd say our lives would be safer if skels were
> > immutable, but that's not how things are right now.)
>
> I agree, and wanted to do this change a long while ago. I think that at one
> point, I *did* change skel->data to be constant, but Jim backed it out.

My copy of libsvn_fs/util/skel.h has 'const char *data' in skel_t, and
it seems to have been that way since libsvn_fs/skel.h in r1. Am I
missing something?

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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