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From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>
To: Benoit Boissinot <bboissin@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: const qualifiers on function returns type
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 04:42:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1DK5vr-0002LO-PJ@be1.7eggert.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3RcNK-4PC-1@gated-at.bofh.it>

Benoit Boissinot <bboissin@gmail.com> wrote:

> extern const cpumask_t cpuset_cpus_allowed(const struct task_struct *p);
> 
> I was wondering what means const for a function returns type.
> K&R doesn't say anything about this and gcc-4 warns (warning: type
> qualifiers ignored on function return type)

It used to be a hint that the function has no side effect nor depends on
any variable besides the parameters. Calls to those functions may be cached
or omitted.
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       reply	other threads:[~2005-04-09  2:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <3RcNK-4PC-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-04-09  2:42 ` Bodo Eggert [this message]
2005-04-09  1:09 Benoit Boissinot

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