From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>
To: "Miguel Botón" <mboton.lkml@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix "passing argument # of '__memcpy' discards qualifiers from pointer target type" warnings
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:25:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Iki6s-0000g8-N2@be1.lrz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9hPIG-7In-19@gated-at.bofh.it>
Miguel Botón <mboton.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
> This patch fixes the warnings "passing argument 1 of '__memcpy' discards
> qualifiers from pointer target type" and "passing argument 2 of '__memcpy'
> discards qualifiers from pointer target type" when compiling some files.
>
> I don't really know if this is the best way but at least I don't get more
> warnings.
> +++ linux-2.6.24-rc1/fs/cifs/dir.c 2007-10-24 15:49:44.000000000 +0200
> @@ -585,6 +585,7 @@
> + unsigned char *dstname = (unsigned char *)a->name;
> @@ -593,7 +594,7 @@
> - memcpy((unsigned char *)a->name, b->name, a->len);
> + memcpy(dstname, b->name, a->len);
This looks like a compiler bug. Get the gcc people to fix it.
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2007-10-24 15:25 ` Bodo Eggert [this message]
2007-10-24 20:35 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2007-10-24 14:39 Miguel Botón
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