[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Modules posixmodule.c,2.120,2.121

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

[Note that Greg's message went to python-checkins since he responded
to a checkin message, but I suspect he meant to change the header to
point to python-dev.  ;)  If not, too bad!]

Greg Stein writes:
 > But this means that your tables no long reside in "const" space. Yet More
 > Per-Process Memory...
 > 
 > It would be nice to have those tables marked as "const".

  Perhaps; as Guido points out, there haven't been a lot of complaints 
about this issue.
  I will note that only the tables aren't constant; the strings that
are pointed to are still constant.  I'm inclined to let the compiler/
linker care about this, and not change the code without a really clear 
need to do so.
  Here are the sizes of those tables and the strings they point to
(including terminating null bytes for the strings):

pathconf_names:  14 entries, 112 bytes,  176 string bytes
confstr_names:   25 entries, 200 bytes,  576 string bytes
sysconf_names:  108 entries, 864 bytes, 1774 string bytes

  Figures are for Solaris7.


  -Fred

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