Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761502AbYAROjy (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:39:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754325AbYAROjq (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:39:46 -0500 Received: from unthought.net ([212.97.129.88]:58315 "EHLO unthought.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750962AbYAROjp (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:39:45 -0500 Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:39:43 +0100 From: Jakob Oestergaard To: "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" Cc: Linus Torvalds , David Schwartz , Johannes Weiner , Linux Kernel Mailing List , clameter@sgi.com, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi Subject: Re: Why is the kfree() argument const? Message-ID: <20080118143943.GQ25527@unthought.net> Mail-Followup-To: Jakob Oestergaard , "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" , Linus Torvalds , David Schwartz , Johannes Weiner , Linux Kernel Mailing List , clameter@sgi.com, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi References: <20080118094826.GN25527@unthought.net> <479091B5.4060700@cateee.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <479091B5.4060700@cateee.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 654 Lines: 21 On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 12:47:01PM +0100, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: ... > "restrict" exists for this reason. const is only about lvalue. You think that I try to put more meaning into const than I do - but I don't. Please read what I wrote, not what you want to think I wrote. I agree that if I said what you seem to imply I said, then I would have been wrong. But I didn't so I'm not ;) -- / jakob -- 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/