linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build failure

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Message-ID: <20080729164256.GA540@elte.hu>
Date:	Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:42:57 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mike Travis <travis@....com>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure


* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> 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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