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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 22:39:55 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] video: constify geode ops structures
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To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
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On Wed, 2015-11-11 at 01:34 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 02:17:12PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Wed, 2015-11-11 at 01:02 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 12:49:29PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > > Is there a warning/info message produced by gcc and the
> > > > plug-in when a non-const declaration is converted to
> > > > const because of this attribute?
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure I understand the question.  What would the warning
> > > say?
> > 
> > Perhaps something like:
> > 
> > declaration of struct <foo> converted to const by
> > __attribute__((do_const))
> 
> No one will ever think to turn on that output.  By the time they think
> of turning it on, it means they have already figured out the issue.

Dubious assertion.