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| -rw-r--r-- | patch-ids.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/patch-ids.c b/patch-ids.c index a5683b462c..1fbc88cbec 100644 --- a/patch-ids.c +++ b/patch-ids.c @@ -41,7 +41,14 @@ static int patch_id_neq(const void *cmpfn_data, const struct hashmap_entry *entry_or_key, const void *keydata UNUSED) { - /* NEEDSWORK: const correctness? */ + /* + * We drop the 'const' modifier here intentionally. + * + * Even though eptr and entry_or_key are const, we want to + * lazily compute their .patch_id members; see b3dfeebb (rebase: + * avoid computing unnecessary patch IDs, 2016-07-29). So we cast + * the constness away with container_of(). + */ struct diff_options *opt = (void *)cmpfn_data; struct patch_id *a, *b; |