* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

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> In contrast, "address-of lvalue" is _guaranteed_ to not do anything 
> stupid like that, and gives just the address-of.
> 
> Oh, and I was wrong about the &*x losing the 'const'. It doesn't. So I 
> think Stephen's patch is fine after all - if somebody tries to modify 
> the end result through the pointer, it will give a big compiler 
> warning.

yeah, both variants do that, i've checked it earlier today - i tried to 
find a way to get something more drastic than a compiler warning. (but 
failed)

	Ingo
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