# HG changeset patch
# User Lars Ellenberg <l...@linbit.com>
# Date 1285672353 -7200
# Node ID 066f484922ec549f84ea59c138d4e6cf16b2e14b
# Parent  5e309d18204045b882616fedeed7e315fc4907bf
Low: add and use UNCONST_CAST_POINTER macro to avoid -Wqual-cast warnings

This also removes unnecessary memcopy and excessive stack usage of 256k on each
invokation of cl_msg_list_add_string, called e.g. from lrmd add_rid_to_msg().

diff -r 5e309d182040 -r 066f484922ec include/lha_internal.h
--- a/include/lha_internal.h    Tue Sep 28 13:06:35 2010 +0200
+++ b/include/lha_internal.h    Tue Sep 28 13:12:33 2010 +0200
@@ -136,6 +136,15 @@
 #define        POINTER_TO_SIZE_T(p)    ((size_t)(p)) /*pointer cast as size_t*/
 #define        POINTER_TO_SSIZE_T(p)   ((ssize_t)(p)) /*pointer cast as 
ssize_t*/
 #define        POINTER_TO_ULONG(p)     ((unsigned long)(p)) /*pointer cast as 
unsigned long*/
+       /* Sometimes we get a const g_something *, but need to pass it 
internally
+        * to other functions taking a non-const g_something *, which results
+        * with gcc and -Wcast-qual in a compile time warning, and with -Werror
+        * even to a compile time error.
+        * Workarounds have been to e.g. memcpy(&list, _list); or similar,
+        * the reason of which is non-obvious to the casual reader.
+        * This macro achieves the same, and annotates why it is done.
+        */
+#define UNCONST_CAST_POINTER(t, p)     ((t)(unsigned long)(p))
 
 #define        HAURL(url)      HA_URLBASE url
 
diff -r 5e309d182040 -r 066f484922ec lib/clplumbing/cl_msg.c
--- a/lib/clplumbing/cl_msg.c   Tue Sep 28 13:06:35 2010 +0200
+++ b/lib/clplumbing/cl_msg.c   Tue Sep 28 13:12:33 2010 +0200
@@ -951,7 +951,6 @@
 {
        GList* list = NULL;
        int ret;
-       char buf[MAXMSG];
        
        if(!msg || !name || !value){
                cl_log(LOG_ERR, "cl_msg_list_add_string: input invalid");
@@ -959,8 +958,7 @@
        }
        
        
-       strncpy(buf, value, MAXMSG);
-       list = g_list_append(list, buf);
+       list = g_list_append(list, UNCONST_CAST_POINTER(gpointer, value));
        if (!list){
                cl_log(LOG_ERR, "cl_msg_list_add_string: append element to"
                       "a glist failed");
diff -r 5e309d182040 -r 066f484922ec lib/clplumbing/cl_msg_types.c
--- a/lib/clplumbing/cl_msg_types.c     Tue Sep 28 13:06:35 2010 +0200
+++ b/lib/clplumbing/cl_msg_types.c     Tue Sep 28 13:12:33 2010 +0200
@@ -168,12 +168,9 @@
 string_list_pack_length(const GList* _list)
 {
        size_t i;
-       GList* list = NULL;
+       GList* list = UNCONST_CAST_POINTER(GList *, _list);
        size_t total_length = 0;
        
-       memcpy(&list, &_list, sizeof(GList*));
-       (void)list;
-
        if (list == NULL){
                cl_log(LOG_WARNING, "string_list_pack_length():"
                       "list is NULL");
@@ -438,16 +435,14 @@
 {
        size_t i;
        GList* newlist = NULL;
-       GList* list;
-
-       memcpy(&list, &_list, sizeof(GList*));
+       GList* list = UNCONST_CAST_POINTER(GList *, _list);
 
        for (i = 0; i < g_list_length(list); i++){
                char* dup_element = NULL;
                char* element = g_list_nth_data(list, i);
                int len;
                if (element == NULL){
-                       cl_log(LOG_WARNING, "list_cleanup:"
+                       cl_log(LOG_WARNING, "list_copy:"
                               "element is NULL");
                        continue;
                }
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