[PATCH] fix warning about duplicate 'const'

[Neil Booth]

Richard Henderson wrote:-

> On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 05:32:11PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Also, I'm not convinced this isn't a gcc regression. It would be stupid to 
> > "fix" something that makes old gcc's complain, when they may be doing the 
> > right thing.
> 
> Problem is, that we're supposed to complain for
> 
> 	const const int x;
> and
> 	typedef const int t;
> 	const t x;
> 
> The proposition that we're not supposed to complain for
> 
> 	const int a;
> 	const __typeof(a) x;
> 
> seems dicey at best.  I'm not sure what to do about this, actually.
> We might could do something with a new __nonqual_typeof(a) that
> strips outermost type qualifications, but I havn't given that much
> thought.

Or you could compile in C99 mode?

Neil.