Sending this one its own as it either becomes an enabler for further related patches, or if nacked, shuts the door on them. Better to test the water before investing too much time on such things. Whilst following a few static code analysis warnings, it became clear that either the tool (which I believe is considered practically state of the art) was very dumb when sniffing into called functions, or that a simple const flag would either help it not make the incorrect paranoid assumptions that it did, or help me dismiss the report as a false positive more quickly. Of course, this is core core code, and shouldn't be diddled with lightly, but it's because it's core code that it's an enabler. Awaiting the judgement of the Solomons, Cheers, Phil -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>