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Date:      Fri, 08 Nov 2002 23:38:53 -0600 (CST)
From:      Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net>
To:        Patrick Cable II <freebsd@slaudiovis.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: apparently, my 'return discards qualifiers from pointer target type'
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20021108233853.conrads@cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <GEEGJMKEOCMNOBOAHIOMIEEMCBAA.freebsd@slaudiovis.org>

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On 09-Nov-2002 Patrick Cable II wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
>  Im compiling 4.7-stable right now and am getting a BUNCH of:
> 
> /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/readelf/../../../../contrib/binutils/binutil
> s/
> readelf.c:6553: warning: return discards qualifiers from pointer target
> type
> 
>  messages. Except theyre with different source files, etc. (one of the
> source files gets one of those warnings per line of code. Eek!) They are
> just warnings and compilation continues, but i dont want to make
> installworld and have everything blow up on my face (especially
> remotely!)
> 
> Thanks in advance for help

These types of warnings are usually caused when the 'const' or 'volatile'
qualifier is discarded from a variable reference, e.g., when using such a
variable in an expression.

They're quite harmless, really.

-- 
Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net>

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