Re: Mark bitrevX() functions as const

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On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, David Howells wrote:
> 
> Mark the bit reversal functions as being const as they always return the same
> output for any given input.

Well, we should mark the argument const too, no?

Does anythign actually improve from this? Also, we should actually use 
"__attribute_const__" instead (which works with other compilers), not the 
gcc'ism. That "__attribute__((const))" thing is a horrible syntax anyway 
(and has apparently slipped into <linux/log2.h> too - Damn.

		Linus
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