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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove __const__ due to GCC warning
Date: 22 Apr 2003 12:14:49 -0700
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Followup to:  <20030422160953.GF7260@debian>
By author:    Art Haas <ahaas@airmail.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Hi.
> 
> These two patches remove a warning GCC produces about using __const__
> where it doesn't matter. I've built numerous kernels with these patches
> and things seem to work fine, so I thought I'd send them out. Maybe GCC
> is right, or maybe it isn't ...
> 
> BTW, the warning appears if '-W' is added to the compile commands.
> 

This seems like the wrong approach.  Instead this presumably should be
__attribute__((const)) instead.

	-hpa
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