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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Add -Wcast-qual flag

To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>, Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Add -Wcast-qual flag
From: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 13:28:10 +0000
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On 21/12/06 12:51, "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> While I'd really like to see all Xen code become const-correct (because I do
> believe this helps with code quality, like does marking read only data read
> only in the page tables), I don't think adding the warning here is
> appropriate - after all, in C this is one of the purposes of adding explicit
> casts (although I agree it's questionable to use casts for this purpose).
> And no, I don't think that many people screwing up const placement is a
> proper argument for not using const where possible.

Well, I'm inclined to take the clean-up parts of the patches but leave out
__UNCONST() and -Wcast-qual. I really dislike the compiler thinking it knows
better than an explicit cast, and casting via unsigned long is just a
kludge.

 -- Keir


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