Re: const from include/asm-i386/byteorder.h

From: William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Date: Sat May 31 2003 - 14:01:38 EST


On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 15:10, Nikita Danilov wrote:
>> Hello,
>> include/asm-i386/byteorder.h contains strange __const__'s in function
>> definitions that have no effect:
>> static __inline__ __const__ __u32 ___arch__swab32(__u32 x)
>> static __inline__ __const__ __u16 ___arch__swab16(__u16 x)

On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 07:49:53PM +0100, Gianni Tedesco wrote:
> shouldn't it be __attribute__((const)) to designate a pure function?

There is an __attribute__((pure)) IIRC.


-- wli
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