Re: linux-next: build failure

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Jul 29 2008 - 12:43:33 EST



* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In contrast, "address-of lvalue" is _guaranteed_ to not do anything
> stupid like that, and gives just the address-of.
>
> Oh, and I was wrong about the &*x losing the 'const'. It doesn't. So I
> think Stephen's patch is fine after all - if somebody tries to modify
> the end result through the pointer, it will give a big compiler
> warning.

yeah, both variants do that, i've checked it earlier today - i tried to
find a way to get something more drastic than a compiler warning. (but
failed)

Ingo
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