[ On Tuesday, July 15, 2003 at 20:01:46 (+0200), Matthias Drochner wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: toolchain/22118: make won't compile with -Wcast-qual   -Wstrict-prototypes and more
>
> In cases like the iov I'd probably prefer a union of a const and a non-const.

That's called pointer aliasing.  It's not portable nor safe, and it
disables the "const" warnings behind the compiler's back.

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