[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] lpm6: make IPv6 addresses immutable

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Mon, 9 Mar 2020 13:38:53 +0000
"Medvedkin, Vladimir" <vladimir.medvedkin at intel.com> wrote:

> Hi Andrze,
> 
> Adding const qualifier for bulk lookup leads to compilation problems 
> (see http://c-faq.com/ansi/constmismatch.html)
> Also I don't think it would be good for usability to make users 
> explicitly cast to (const uint8_t **) when passing 'ips' argument. I'd 
> suggest leaving lookup_bulk as is.


Please give a more concrete example. There is no need for explicit cast
in current C.