* Roman Zippel <[email protected]> wrote:
> A const for arguments which are passed by value is completely ignored
> by gcc. It has only an effect on local variables and even here a
> recent gcc doesn't need it either to produce better code. I left a few
> const which help gcc-3.x to produce slightly smaller code.
still nack... Using const is _not a bug_, and in fact there are some
good reasons to make use of it - so it should be left up to the authors
of the code how much they make use of const. This patch also creates
quite some churn in the -hrt queue, for no good reason.
Ingo
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