On Mar 5, 2008, at 8:27 PM, Adam Leventhal wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 10:51:32AM +0100, Trond Norbye wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Is there a valid reason for why dtrace -h removes the const
>> qualifier?
>>
>> provider foo {
>> probe bar(const void*);
>> };
>>
>> The signature in the generated header-file generated by dtrace -hs
>> foo.d looks like:
>>
>> extern void __dtrace_foo___bar(void *);
>>
>> Why is the const qualifier removed? Is this a bug or a "feature"?
>
> This is a bug. You filed it in 2006:
>
> 6460581 dtrace -h drops const qualifier in the generated function
> prototypes
>
> It's kind of a pain to fix, but I'll try to bump it up in the queue.
> It should
> just be a matter of tinkering with dt_decl_type(), but dealing with
> all the
> different ways you can apply const (e.g. const char const *) will be
> tricky.
Thank you :-)
I had totally forgot that I filed it, and I didn't see it when I did a
quick search today.. How could I miss that! I guess that I need to get
new glasses ;)
Trond
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