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From: Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>
To: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at>
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Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:

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  > Pure K&R:
  
  We can (and should) make it "const" too.

No "const" in K&R either.  But I think we can assume the kernel will be
compiled with something a bit more advance.