Re: [PATCH] [PERF] (Userspace Tools) Fix a compilation error with -fstack-protector and -Werror

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Brian Gitonga Marete <marete@toshnix.com> wrote:

> > OK. Now that I actually look closely at that fragment I can see its useless to 
> > create the automatic arrays. Local string literals would also work (i.e. just 
> > pass `"Yes"' and `"No"' to newtWinChoice). But can also do what you suggested if 
> > it is anticipated that they will be used somewhere else within the file at some 
> > other time -- Currently they are not.
> 
> Oops. Sorry. What I suggested won't work because of the -Wwrite-strings default 
> option. Which actually makes me understand why the original author of the code 
> made it the way it is. Your suggestion of file-scope, static does solve the 
> problem.

Btw., -Wwrite-strings has proven to be a really useful warning in practice, in that 
it ensured that we propagate string immutability/const-ness as widely as possible. 
This resulted is cleaner perf code in the long run.

Here we cannot fix the Newt prototype (it's an existing library outside of our 
control) to take a const so we have to do the (mild) workaround of moving it to file 
scope. (if this becomes common then we'd have to re-evaluate the use of this 
warning)

I think Arnaldo has plans to get rid of the libnewt dependency altogether - that 
might be a fix too.

Thanks,

	Ingo