Bug 72387 – Remove useless const modifier from KURL::init

• Component: WebCore Misc.
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

Follow-up to Bug 71921 Comment #17.

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

Created attachment 115168 [details]
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[Andreas Kling]

Comment on attachment 115168 [details]
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View in context: https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=115168&action=review

> Source/WebCore/platform/KURL.cpp:489
> -                const char* bufferStart = bufferPos;
> +                char* bufferStart = bufferPos;

Why is this const useless but the ones further down (baseString, baseStringStart, pathStart, baseStringEnd, relStringStart, relStringPos) aren't?

[David Kilzer (:ddkilzer)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> (From update of attachment 115168 [details])
> View in context: https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=115168&action=review
> 
> > Source/WebCore/platform/KURL.cpp:489
> > -                const char* bufferStart = bufferPos;
> > +                char* bufferStart = bufferPos;
> 
> Why is this const useless but the ones further down (baseString, baseStringStart, pathStart, baseStringEnd, relStringStart, relStringPos) aren't?

Per Darin's statement in Bug 71921 Comment #17, they would be useless as well.  This patch was only to remove the useless 'const' modifier I added for Bug 71921, but I can remove the rest if that's what the consensus is.

[Darin Adler]

We use const char* all the time, and I did not mean to imply that was useless. I am not saying that the const keyword is useless, just that making actual local variables const is not something we do in most WebKit code. Not the characters that a local variable points to, the local variable itself.

[Darin Adler]

Comment on attachment 115168 [details]
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Given that this is a pointer into a buffer of non-const characters, I think it's fine for it to be char*, even though I did not mean to claim this was useless at all!

[WebKit Review Bot]

Comment on attachment 115168 [details]
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Clearing flags on attachment: 115168

Committed r100298: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/100298>

[WebKit Review Bot]

All reviewed patches have been landed.  Closing bug.