On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 03:58:20PM +0530, Manavendra Nath Manav wrote:
> Is the above a genuine kernel bug, or i am missing something out here. Pls 
> help.
> 

When you declare something as const then the compiler assumes it
really is const and uses a literal instead of reading from memory.
I'm surprised the compiler doesn't print a warning message.

It has to do with compilers, nothing to do with kernels.

regards,
dan carpenter
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