linux-kernel - Re: Why is the kfree() argument const?

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Message-ID: <20080118143943.GQ25527@unthought.net>
Date:	Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:39:43 +0100
From:	Jakob Oestergaard <jakob@...hought.net>
To:	"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <cate@...eee.net>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Schwartz <davids@...master.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...urebad.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	clameter@....com, penberg@...helsinki.fi
Subject: Re: Why is the kfree() argument const?

On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 12:47:01PM +0100, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote:
...
> "restrict" exists for this reason. const is only about lvalue.

You think that I try to put more meaning into const than I do - but I don't.

Please read what I wrote, not what you want to think I wrote.

I agree that if I said what you seem to imply I said, then I would have been
wrong. But I didn't so I'm not ;)


-- 

 / jakob

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