Read-Only Variables

NOTE(READ_ONLY_DATA(DataNameList))

This annotation is allowed both outside and inside a function definition. It tells LockLint how data should be protected. In this case, it tells LockLint that the data should only be read, and not written.

No error is signaled if read-only data is written while it is considered invisible. Data is considered invisible when other threads cannot access it; for example, if other threads do not know about it.

This annotation is often used with data that is initialized and never changed thereafter. If the initialization is done at runtime before the data is visible to other threads, use annotations to let LockLint know that the data is invisible during that time.

LockLint knows that const data is read-only.