Const version of castNode()

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Subject: Const version of castNode()
Date: 2019-09-03 08:44:17
Message-ID: 20190903084417.z67abhwk5w6ewasy@alap3.anarazel.de
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Hi,

Right now, when assertions are enabled, using castNode() on a pointer to
const triggers a warning for my compilers:
warning: passing argument 2 of ‘castNodeImpl’ discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers]

which seems appropriate. Obviously we could easily suppress that just by
adding an explicit cast into the castNode definition or to the
caller. But it strikes me as a somewhat legitimate warning.

On gcc etc we could fairly easily reformulate castNodeImpl() to not
trigger the above warning, but we'd still cast constness away due to the
return type cast.

#ifdef USE_ASSERT_CHECKING
...
#define castNode(_type_, nodeptr) ((_type_ *) castNodeImpl(T_##_type_, nodeptr))
#else
#define castNode(_type_, nodeptr) ((_type_ *) (nodeptr))
#endif /* USE_ASSERT_CHECKING */

ISTM adding a castConstNode or castNodeConst would make sense?

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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