Re: [PATCH] fix warning about duplicate 'const'

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>]

On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > This is done by removing the 'const' from the temporary variables of the min() 
> > and max() macros. For me it seems to have no negative impact, so please 
> > consider applying...
> 
> I think there was a reason for those consts in kernel.h's min() and max()
> macros, but memory fails me.  Linus, do you recall?

I'm not 100% sure, but I think they are required to make a few other 
warnings go away. The fact that gcc complains about "const typeof" is a 
gcc misfeature, I think, and should be fixed there.

The warnings the extra "const" fixes is something like:

	int a;
	const int b;

	min(a,b)

where otherwise it would complain about pointers to different types when
comparing the type of the pointer. Or something.

		Linus