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Remove __const__ due to GCC warning

PATCH In review Art Haas 2 participants 2 messages Apr 22, 2003

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PATCH 1/1 Remove __const__ due to GCC warning

Hi.

These two patches remove a warning GCC produces about using __const__ where it doesn't matter. I've built numerous kernels with these patches and things seem to work fine, so I thought I'd send them out. Maybe GCC is right, or maybe it isn't ...

BTW, the warning appears if '-W' is added to the compile commands.

Art Haas

===== include/asm-i386/byteorder.h 1.2 vs edited =====

include/asm-i386/byteorder.h +2 -2
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 #include <linux/config.h>
 #endif
 
-static __inline__ __const__ __u32 ___arch__swab32(__u32 x)
+static __inline__ __u32 ___arch__swab32(__u32 x)
 {
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_BSWAP
 	__asm__("bswap %0" : "=r" (x) : "0" (x));
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 
 /* gcc should generate this for open coded C now too. May be worth switching to 
    it because inline assembly cannot be scheduled. -AK */
-static __inline__ __const__ __u16 ___arch__swab16(__u16 x)
+static __inline__ __u16 ___arch__swab16(__u16 x)
 {
 	__asm__("xchgb %b0,%h0"		/* swap bytes		*/
 		: "=q" (x)

===== include/linux/byteorder/swab.h 1.2 vs edited =====

include/linux/byteorder/swab.h +3 -3
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@
 #endif /* OPTIMIZE */
 
 
-static __inline__ __const__ __u16 __fswab16(__u16 x)
+static __inline__  __u16 __fswab16(__u16 x)
 {
 	return __arch__swab16(x);
 }
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@
 	__arch__swab16s(addr);
 }
 
-static __inline__ __const__ __u32 __fswab32(__u32 x)
+static __inline__ __u32 __fswab32(__u32 x)
 {
 	return __arch__swab32(x);
 }
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@
 }
 
 #ifdef __BYTEORDER_HAS_U64__
-static __inline__ __const__ __u64 __fswab64(__u64 x)
+static __inline__ __u64 __fswab64(__u64 x)
 {
 #  ifdef __SWAB_64_THRU_32__
 	__u32 h = x >> 32;
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Followup to:  <20030422160953.GF7260@debian>
By author:    Art Haas <[email protected]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
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Hi.

These two patches remove a warning GCC produces about using __const__ where it doesn't matter. I've built numerous kernels with these patches and things seem to work fine, so I thought I'd send them out. Maybe GCC is right, or maybe it isn't ...

BTW, the warning appears if '-W' is added to the compile commands.

This seems like the wrong approach. Instead this presumably should be __attribute__((const)) instead.

-hpa

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