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+/*
+ Unix SMB/CIFS implementation.
+ Samba utility functions
+ Copyright (C) Andrew Tridgell 1992-1999
+ Copyright (C) Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org> 2008
+
+ This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+ (at your option) any later version.
+
+ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+*/
+
+#ifndef _SAMBA_DISCARD_H_
+#define _SAMBA_DISCARD_H_
+
+/**
+ this is a warning hack. The idea is to use this everywhere that we
+ get the "discarding const" warning from gcc. That doesn't actually
+ fix the problem of course, but it means that when we do get to
+ cleaning them up we can do it by searching the code for
+ discard_const.
+
+ It also means that other error types aren't as swamped by the noise
+ of hundreds of const warnings, so we are more likely to notice when
+ we get new errors.
+
+ Please only add more uses of this macro when you find it
+ _really_ hard to fix const warnings. Our aim is to eventually use
+ this function in only a very few places.
+
+ Also, please call this via the discard_const_p() macro interface, as that
+ makes the return type safe.
+*/
+#ifndef discard_const
+#define discard_const(ptr) ((void *)((uintptr_t)(ptr)))
+#endif
+
+/** Type-safe version of discard_const */
+#ifndef discard_const_p
+#define discard_const_p(type, ptr) ((type *)discard_const(ptr))
+#endif
+
+#endif /* _SAMBA_DISCARD_H_ */