Re: [PATCH] I/O helpers rework

[Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>]

>>>>> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 21:48:36 +0000, Richard Sandiford 
>>>>> <rsandifo@redhat.com> said:
rsandifo> You can't dereference it, obviously, just like you can't
rsandifo> deference a normal "void *".  But you can assign it to any
rsandifo> "volatile T *" without an explicit cast.  I assumed that's
rsandifo> what was happening in this case?

Assigning "void *" to "volatile T *" is not a problem.  Compiler warns
if you assigned "volatile T *" to "void *".

The warnings I mentioned before are:

/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_osm.h: In function `ahc_inb':
/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_osm.h:589: warning: passing arg 1 
of `readb' discards qualifiers from pointer target type

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Atsushi Nemoto