Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Not a terribly convenient convenience, as most callers will need to cast > away the constness of the return value. Oh well, those callers should > have been using a `const char *' anyway. Maybe. You could always do as strchr(): char *strchr(const char *s, int c); Then you don't need to cast the result. The problem[*] is that you can't tell the compiler that the return value should carry the same constness as one of the arguments because you don't have something like C++ templates. [*] If indeed not having C++ or templates should be seen as a problem... David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
