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1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/source4/lib/util.c b/source4/lib/util.c index c09e1a2997..910a35217c 100644 --- a/source4/lib/util.c +++ b/source4/lib/util.c @@ -931,3 +931,23 @@ BOOL all_zero(const char *ptr, uint_t size) return True; } + +/* + this is a warning hack. The idea is to use this everywhere that we + get the "discarding const" warning from gcc, effectively moving all + the warnings to this one place. That doesn't actually fix the + problem of course, but it means that when we do get to cleaning them + up we can do it by searching the code for discard_const. + + It also means that other error types aren't as swamped by the noise + of hundreds of const warnings, so we are more likely to notice when + we get new errors. + + Please only add more calls to this function when you find it + _really_ hard to fix const warnings. Our aim is to eventually not + need this function at all, +*/ +void *discard_const(const void *ptr) +{ + return (void *)ptr; +} |