Re: [PATCH] const mips_io_port_base !?

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 01:02:14AM +0100, Florian Lohoff wrote:

Blame whoever designed C that there is no sane way to give a variable an
attribute like "will never change again after the first initalization thus
keeping the value in a register beyond function calls and any other kind
of memory barrier is ok".  This inconsistence merily achieves a better
optimization of the code; the set_* function is intended to hide this cute
little standard violation away ...

  Ralf