libnl3. Please make read-only arguments as "const"

[Марк Коренберг]

2012/1/27 Марк Коренберг <socketpair at gmail.com>

> For example, in nla_parse_nested(), last argument (struct nla_policy
> *policy) may be decalred as "const struct nla_policy * policy".
> It will allow me to write
>
> static const struct nla_policy my policy {
>> ...
>> }
>
>
> and gcc will place this memory in read-only memory segment instead of
> writable one. Also, const items are subjects for optimisations in gcc.



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