Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Nov 2001 11:01:42 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] take 2 of the tr-based current |
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On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> "David S. Miller" wrote: > > > > From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> > > Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 15:54:03 +0100 > > [SNIPPED...]
> smp_processor_id() is definitively not const. > > OTHO 'current' is const. > --
Not as far as the compiler is concerned! You don't want the compiler to generate code that reads 'current' once upon startup, and never again. Further, you don't want that pointer to exist in .rodata, you want it with the changable variables in .data or .bss .
Cheers, Dick Johnson
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