Re: [PATCH 02/13] hrtimer: remove useless const

[Roman Zippel]

Hi,

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Thomas Gleixner 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.
> 
> NACK - gcc3 produces smaller code with the const - only gcc4 fixed that

That would would be a compiler problem, these const _are_ bogus.

> Also this is neither a regression nor a bug and therefor not required
> for 2.6.16.

Well, hrtimer was merged a bit suddenly for me, so I never had a chance 
for a detailed review and this patch doesn't break anything either.

bye, Roman
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