Re: [PATCH 02/13] hrtimer: remove useless const

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 02:09 +0100, Roman Zippel 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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

NACK - gcc3 produces smaller code with the const - only gcc4 fixed that,
so we want to keep these consts until gcc4 is the only compiler
supported. 		

Also this is neither a regression nor a bug and therefor not required
for 2.6.16.

	tglx


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