Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 22:16:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, obrien@freebsd.org Subject: Re: One more question (different now) Message-ID: <XFMail.000509221648.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> In-Reply-To: <200005092342.QAA20940@mass.cdrom.com>
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On 09-May-00 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.
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> 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.
Agree. It is a mess. Ideally, if an object is volatile,
then it should be respected as so. always.
The ANSI standard is too vague on this issue and the number
of poor suckers that have to have it is too small.
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> \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org
> \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com
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Sincerely Yours
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Simon Shapiro Research Fellow, Earthlink Inc.
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