On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 8:25 PM, Joe Perches [off-list ref] wrote:

I think I've seen code in the kernel like
        char *p2 = (void *)p;
where p is const and p2 is dereferenced and set.

I can imagine there's code like that.

Still hoping for gcc to gain an option to warn about all casts, except in header
files...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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