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Subject: Re: [PATCH] HID: roccat: Drop cast
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: Himangi Saraogi <himangi774@gmail.com>,
        Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net>,
        Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>, linux-input@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 11:25:49 -0700
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On Sun, 2014-06-29 at 18:34 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jun 2014, Joe Perches wrote:
> > void func(const void * const p)
> > {
> > 	char *p2 = p;
> > 
> > 	p2[0] = 1;
> > }
> 
> Is this a real example?

No, it's not.

I think I've seen code in the kernel like
	char *p2 = (void *)p;
where p is const and p2 is dereferenced and set.


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