Re: [PATCH] proc: constify status array

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 05:56, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> -static const char *task_state_array[] = {
>> +static const char * const task_state_array[] = {
>
> Why this is needed for task_state_array, but not for, say, tgid_base_stuff?

tgid_base_stuff is already declared const.  which your nm output clearly shows.

> This double const is ugly.

quite the opposite.  not declaring const arrays const is ugly.
-mike
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