ASH: why ash_ptr_to_globals_misc is declared as const pointer

[Xabier Oneca -- xOneca]

Hello,

2018-01-18 22:48 GMT+01:00 Yunlian Jiang <yunlian at google.com>:
> My question is.
>    the  ash_ptr_to_globals_misc, ash_ptr_to_globals_memstack and
> ash_ptr_to_globals_var
> are defined in ash_ptr_hack.c as normal pointers. But in ash.c, they are
> declared as const
> pointers. What is the benefit of doing that?

Maybe same purpose as ptr_to_globals?

https://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/libbb/ptr_to_globals.c#n13

There also checks for GCC_COMBINE, but it does the opposite of your patch.

Cheers,
Xabier Oneca_,,_