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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: Fix compiler warning.
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:08:43 -0800 (PST)
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From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:06:32 +0100 (CET)

> 
> On Donnerstag 2009-12-10 22:44, chavey@google.com wrote:
> 
>>Fix compiler warning "discards qualifiers from pointer target type",
>>by allowing explicit discard of const qualifier thru type casting.
>>The const_cast() macro is taken from a patch from Kaveh R. Ghazi
> 
> Uhm, I am not getting any warning on xt_time with either gcc-4.4.1
> or gcc-4.5_20091126, so what case are we actually trying to fix?

I get this warning with gcc-4.3.x all the time.