Re: [PATCH] HID: roccat: Drop cast

From: Julia Lawall
Date: Fri Jun 27 2014 - 01:29:50 EST




On Thu, 26 Jun 2014, Joe Perches wrote:

> On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 22:58 +0530, Himangi Saraogi wrote:
> > This patch removes the cast on data of type void* as it is not needed.
>
> Hi Himangi
>
> The cast of a const void * to a void * was odd.
>
> Maybe a mechanism to verify appropriateness of
> loss of constness for any pointer might be useful.

I tried the following, but didn't find anything interesting:

@disable drop_cast@
type T;
const T e;
@@

* (T)e

julia
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