Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261942AbUCJEDZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Mar 2004 23:03:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261943AbUCJEDY (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Mar 2004 23:03:24 -0500 Received: from jozlin.snap.net.nz ([202.37.101.35]:32456 "EHLO jozlin.snap.net.nz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261942AbUCJEDS (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Mar 2004 23:03:18 -0500 Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 17:08:49 +1300 (NZDT) From: Keith Duthie To: Linus Torvalds cc: Thomas Schlichter , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix warning about duplicate 'const' In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <200403090043.21043.thomas.schlichter@web.de> <20040308161410.49127bdf.akpm@osdl.org> <200403090217.40867.thomas.schlichter@web.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 901 Lines: 20 On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote: > All that code was from early 2002 (around 2.4.9), so maybe somebody can > find the full discussion on the linux-kernel archives from January 2002 or > so? The thread in which the "const typeof" was introduced appears to be "[IDEA+RFC] Possible solution for min()/max() war" from August/September 2001, and const typeof appears to have been introduced by Peter Breuer. The arguments appear to largely be about signedness at that point. Some mention is made of how bad -Wsign-compare is. -- Just because it isn't nice doesn't make it any less a miracle. http://users.albatross.co.nz/~psycho/ O- -><- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/