Const Function Parameters?

[Felix Nawothnig]

Andreas Mohr wrote:
> While I'm not too convinced in this case (1.5% improvement sounds like
> within statistic noise), it should be a good idea to mark things in Wine
> const whenever possible (objdump -x helps here), since it improves reliability

Huh? He did stuff like...

-void foo(int i)
+void foo(const int i)

This will most likely not improve reliability. He also changed some 
pointers to const which is wanted and will ofcourse improve reliability.

Assuming that gcc has a pretty good optimizer the only reason I can 
think of (besides a GCC bug :-) why performance increased is that gcc 
doesn't have to perform aliasing-analysis and can be sure that the dst 
pointer will never point into local parameters (constifying local 
variables could speed up things slightly more).

I'm not sure about the "restrict" semantics but maybe it could be used 
instead of constifying "int i" to archieve the same effects?

Felix