Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Feb 2006 12:38:26 +0100 (CET) | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 02/13] hrtimer: remove useless const |
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Hi,
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > A const for arguments which are passed by value is completely ignored by > > gcc. It has only an effect on local variables and even here gcc doesn't > > need it either to produce better code. > > NACK - gcc3 produces smaller code with the const - only gcc4 fixed that
That would would be a compiler problem, these const _are_ bogus.
> Also this is neither a regression nor a bug and therefor not required > for 2.6.16.
Well, hrtimer was merged a bit suddenly for me, so I never had a chance for a detailed review and this patch doesn't break anything either.
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