Re: Remaining violations of MISRA Rule 7.4

[Nicola Vetrini <nicola.vetrini@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I've just rebased and pushed the residual from the past work (although 
> I
> missed the ARM EFI fix.)
>
> https://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=people/andrewcoop/xen.git;a=commitdiff;h=0f06bab762f5201f3e00aaaee704c3c01f516b51
> https://gitlab.com/xen-project/people/andyhhp/xen/-/pipelines/1065699873
>
> I'm going to make a firm request that we fix this by activating
> -Wwrite-strings Xen wide, because that's by far and away the best way 
> to
> stop regressions creeping back in.
>
> In start_xen(), basically whatever goes.  All that's doing is 
> processing
> of one command line into another, and your version looks a bit neater
> than mine.
>
> The name.s cases (it's duplicated in x86 and ARM) are more tricky.  The
> compiler warning can be silenced by swapping name.s for name.cs but I
> have no idea whether Eclair can see through that piece of blatent 
> lying.
> ~Andrew
Just to avoid any misunderstanding: do you have the intention of 
evaluating and then perhaps integrate the fixes that at the moment block 
the introduction of -Wwrite-strings and then respin your patch, or 
should I do something specifically?
--
Nicola Vetrini, BSc
Software Engineer, BUGSENG srl (https://bugseng.com)