Re: [patch 2.6.7-rc2] Add const to some scheduling functions

[Keith Owens]

On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 00:16:32 -0700, 
Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Several scheduler macros only read from the task struct, mark them
>>  const.  It can generate better code.
>
>It makes no change to the gcc-3.4.0-compiled x86 kernel's size.  Under what
>circumstances did you see improvements?

None, it is just good programming practice to mark parameters as const
where possible.

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