Re: const from include/asm-i386/byteorder.h

Gianni Tedesco (gianni@scaramanga.co.uk)
31 May 2003 19:49:53 +0100


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On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 15:10, Nikita Danilov wrote:
> Hello,=20
>=20
> include/asm-i386/byteorder.h contains strange __const__'s in function
> definitions that have no effect:
>=20
> static __inline__ __const__ __u32 ___arch__swab32(__u32 x)
> static __inline__ __const__ __u16 ___arch__swab16(__u16 x)

shouldn't it be __attribute__((const)) to designate a pure function?

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