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Christoph Lameter <clameter@...>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...>, <penberg@...>
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Re: Why is the kfree() argument const?
Date: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - 6:20 pm
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Johannes Weiner wrote:
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> So if I got it right and you actually modify the memory you only got a > const pointer to, you reach a level where you _have to_ break this > policy and cast to a non-const pointer, as it is currently done in > kfree(). No?
Correct and we have gcc 4.2 currently spitting out warnings because of casting to non const. Any idea how to convince gcc that this is okay? --
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Why is the kfree() argument const?
, Johannes Weiner
, (Wed Jan 16, 12:32 pm)
Re: Why is the kfree() argument const?
, Linus Torvalds
, (Wed Jan 16, 2:39 pm)
Re: Why is the kfree() argument const?
, Steven Rostedt
, (Wed Jan 16, 6:33 pm)
Re: Why is the kfree() argument const?
, Johannes Weiner
, (Wed Jan 16, 6:19 pm)
Re: Why is the kfree() argument const?
, Linus Torvalds
, (Wed Jan 16, 7:16 pm)
Re: Why is the kfree() argument const?
, Christoph Lameter
, (Wed Jan 16, 6:20 pm)
Re: Why is the kfree() argument const?
, Linus Torvalds
, (Wed Jan 16, 7:18 pm)
Re: Why is the kfree() argument const?
, Johannes Weiner
, (Wed Jan 16, 7:13 pm)
Re: Why is the kfree() argument const?
, Johannes Weiner
, (Wed Jan 16, 6:37 pm)
Re: Why is the kfree() argument const?
, Christoph Lameter
, (Wed Jan 16, 12:48 pm)
Re: Why is the kfree() argument const?
, Pekka J Enberg
, (Wed Jan 16, 1:45 pm)
Re: Why is the kfree() argument const?
, Bernd Petrovitsch
, (Wed Jan 16, 1:34 pm)
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