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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] acpi: set return value to const char for some functions
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 16:59:46 -0700
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On Thu, 2015-10-15 at 19:32 +0000, Moore, Robert wrote:
> if you started to use "const" for some methods you usually forced to
> use this in most of your code. But the time spent for maintaining
> (typing, recompiling when some const is missing, etc.) of
> const-correctness in code seems greater than for fixing of possible
> (very rare) problems caused by not using of const-correctness at all

c is not c++.

"seems" is a dubious statement.