On Wed, 10 May 2000, Simon Shapiro wrote:
>
> On 10-May-00 Doug Rabson wrote:
> > On Tue, 9 May 2000, Mike Smith wrote:
> >
> >> > On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 04:27:10PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
> >> > > The only answer I've seen for this one is to kick, hard, whoever it was
> >> > > that added -Wcast-qual to the kernel options.
> >> >
> >> > Or we should just delete it from the options.
> >>
> >> Ugh. I don't actually like that, because it serves a valid purpose.
> >> What irritates me mostly is just that there is no way of casting a
> >> volatile object into a non-volatile type, so you can't implement any sort
> >> of conditional volatility exclusion.
> >
> > You can suppress the warning if you cast to uintptr_t first. Pretty ugly
> > though.
>
> It actually worked! Now I will go and see what this uintptr_t
> actually is :-)
Its an unsigned integer type which is the same size as a pointer (i.e. its
safe to cast a pointer to uintptr_t without losing information).
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