Re: Question about `Avoid const strarray pointers in all functions' patch

Alexandre Julliard <[email protected]> Thu, 27 Feb 2025 22:26:05 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.wine.devel
Message-ID <87eczj13ma.fsf@wine>
Mitch Wilkinson <[email protected]> writes:

> Patch 0828f33e550 (tools: Avoid const strarray pointers in all functions., 2025-02-26)[1] recently landed to `Wine development'.  Can anyone
> explain me what motivation was behind changing type of function parameter(s)?  Does this affect function inlining, or something?

There's no performance improvement, it's for consistency with the other
similar functions that take an strarray as input. Not passing a pointer
makes it obvious that the array is not modified.

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Alexandre Julliard
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