On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 09:54:27AM -0800, Jesse Gross wrote: > On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Luigi Rizzo <ri...@iet.unipi.it> wrote: > > i see. So the const qualifier in the argument to those functions > > is ignored/overridden intentionally ? > > Well really we have two types of functions here: one that accepts a > const and returns a const and one that is the same but for non-const > pointers. Every use should be able to map directly to one of those two > without the need to do any casting away of constness but in practice > they've been combined into a single function here.
For what it's worth, this is a common thing to do in C. You can see the same thing in the C library itself in the definition of functions like strchr(). _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
