From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/12] hrtimer: remove useless const
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 12:16:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060214111648.GA26311@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0602141111380.3741@scrub.home>
* Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> A const for arguments which are passed by value is completely ignored
> by gcc. It has only an effect on local variables and even here a
> recent gcc doesn't need it either to produce better code. I left a few
> const which help gcc-3.x to produce slightly smaller code.
still nack... Using const is _not a bug_, and in fact there are some
good reasons to make use of it - so it should be left up to the authors
of the code how much they make use of const. This patch also creates
quite some churn in the -hrt queue, for no good reason.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-14 11:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-14 10:12 [PATCH 10/12] hrtimer: remove useless const Roman Zippel
2006-02-14 11:16 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2006-02-14 11:38 ` Roman Zippel
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