Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 02/13] hrtimer: remove useless const | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Date | Mon, 13 Feb 2006 12:28:36 +0100 |
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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@linux-m68k.org>
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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