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Subject: Re: HEADS UP: cvs commit: src/sys/conf kern.pre.mk (fwd)
From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>
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In message: <1014700670.677.9.camel@blackbox.pacbell.net>
            Mike Makonnen <mike_makonnen@yahoo.com> writes:
: On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 20:59, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: > I've fixed a few of the low hanging fruit, but I don't know how to get
: > rid of warnings like:
: > 
: > const char *foo = "blah";
: > char *baz = foo;
: > 
: > when I know they are safe.
: 
: Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the correct declaration:
: 
: const char foo[] = "blah";
: char baz[] = "foo";

You miss the point.  First, there's no "" around foo.  Second, what I
quoted was boiled down from a bunch of macros and such.  Third, the
real example would be

volatile int conspeed;
int *foo = &conspeed;

Where foo is only accessed before all other accesses to conspeed.

Warner

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