Re: [PATCH] Silence a const vs non-const warning

[Mitchell Blank Jr <mitch@sfgoth.com>]

Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> This patch silences a const vs. non-const warning issued by very
> recent GCC versions:
> 
> $ vax-linux-uclibc-gcc -v 2>&1 | grep version
[...]
>  void *memcpy(void *dest, const void *src, size_t count)
>  {
>  	char *tmp = dest;
> -	char *s = src;
> +	const char *s = src;

Actually the compiler version has nothing to do with it -- I'm pretty
sure even gcc 2.X would warn on that.  The actual reason that most people
don't see that is that an arch w/o __HAVE_ARCH_MEMCPY is pretty rare.

Still, no reason for the reference C version of that function to emit
a warning, so it's worth fixing.

-Mitch
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