[PATCH 1/4] command: Use a constant pointer for the help

Sean Anderson seanga2 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 9 05:32:56 CEST 2021


On 4/6/21 12:30 AM, Simon Glass wrote:
> This text should never change during execution, so it makes sense to
> use a const char * so that it can be declared as const in the code.
> Update struct cmd_tbl with a const char * pointer for 'help'.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> ---
> 
>   include/command.h | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/command.h b/include/command.h
> index 747f8f80958..675c16a1249 100644
> --- a/include/command.h
> +++ b/include/command.h
> @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ struct cmd_tbl {
>   			       char *const argv[]);
>   	char		*usage;		/* Usage message	(short)	*/

Should usage also be const?

--Sean

>   #ifdef	CONFIG_SYS_LONGHELP
> -	char		*help;		/* Help  message	(long)	*/
> +	const char	*help;		/* Help  message	(long)	*/
>   #endif
>   #ifdef CONFIG_AUTO_COMPLETE
>   	/* do auto completion on the arguments */
> 



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