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Date:      Thu, 07 Jun 2001 19:55:54 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: free() and const warnings 
Message-ID:  <200106080155.f581tsV16004@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 Jun 2001 10:20:51 PDT." <XFMail.010607102051.jhb@FreeBSD.org> 
References:  <XFMail.010607102051.jhb@FreeBSD.org>  

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In message <XFMail.010607102051.jhb@FreeBSD.org> John Baldwin writes:
: Of course, this begs the question of why you are free'ing a const. :)

Sometimes that's the only handle that you have on the object :-).  I
sometimes think that changing free to be const void * is the right
answer, but that has its own set problems :-)

Warner

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