Currently, the generated function body will do "strlen(arg)" but the
argument could be 'char **' or 'char * const *'. Avoid that by excluding
such cases in is_string check.
Reported by patchew's "make docker-test-mingw@fedora".
Suggested-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <f...@redhat.com>
---
v2: Fix typo in commit message and "yeah we'll be counting stars". [Eric]
---
scripts/tracetool/backend/simple.py | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/scripts/tracetool/backend/simple.py
b/scripts/tracetool/backend/simple.py
index 9885e83..85f6102 100644
--- a/scripts/tracetool/backend/simple.py
+++ b/scripts/tracetool/backend/simple.py
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ PUBLIC = True
def is_string(arg):
strtype = ('const char*', 'char*', 'const char *', 'char *')
- if arg.lstrip().startswith(strtype):
+ arg_strip = arg.lstrip()
+ if arg_strip.startswith(strtype) and arg_strip.count('*') == 1:
return True
else:
return False
--
2.7.4
