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To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@mips.com>
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From: Richard Sandiford <rsandifo@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:12:40 +0000
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"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@mips.com> writes:
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Atsushi Nemoto wrote:
>
>> Well, maybe the 'volatile' have no sense, but some archs (including
>> i386, of course :-)) and some drivers use it.  Adding the 'volatile'
>> will remove some compiler warnings.
>
>  As will removing "volatile" from broken ports.

There's nothing wrong with "volatile void *".

Richard