From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 9 19:14:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from sendero.simon-shapiro.org (sendero.simon-shapiro.org [207.69.194.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B100037B5E9 for ; Tue, 9 May 2000 19:14:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shimon@simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 363 invoked from network); 10 May 2000 03:05:38 -0000 Received: from nomis.simon-shapiro.org (209.86.126.163) by sendero.simon-shapiro.org with SMTP; 10 May 2000 03:05:38 -0000 Content-Length: 1239 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200005092342.QAA20940@mass.cdrom.com> Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 22:16:48 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: Simon's Garage From: Simon Shapiro To: Mike Smith Subject: Re: One more question (different now) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, obrien@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 09-May-00 Mike Smith wrote: >> On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 04:27:10PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: >> > The only answer I've seen for this one is to kick, hard, whoever it was >> > that added -Wcast-qual to the kernel options. >> >> Or we should just delete it from the options. > > Ugh. I don't actually like that, because it serves a valid purpose. > What irritates me mostly is just that there is no way of casting a > volatile object into a non-volatile type, so you can't implement any sort > of conditional volatility exclusion. Agree. It is a mess. Ideally, if an object is volatile, then it should be respected as so. always. The ANSI standard is too vague on this issue and the number of poor suckers that have to have it is too small. > -- > \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith > \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message Sincerely Yours 404.664.6401 Simon Shapiro Research Fellow, Earthlink Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message