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From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] HID: roccat: Drop cast
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 07:29:39 +0200 (CEST)
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Cc: Himangi Saraogi <himangi774@gmail.com>, Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org



On Thu, 26 Jun 2014, Joe Perches wrote:

> On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 22:58 +0530, Himangi Saraogi wrote:
> > This patch removes the cast on data of type void* as it is not needed.
> 
> Hi Himangi
> 
> The cast of a const void * to a void * was odd.
> 
> Maybe a mechanism to verify appropriateness of
> loss of constness for any pointer might be useful.

I tried the following, but didn't find anything interesting:

@disable drop_cast@
type T;
const T e;
@@

* (T)e

julia