I've committed the following patch as obvious. The local "prefix" variable is only assigned const strings, and only passed to printf() functions, so add "const" to avoid gcc warnings: common/sim-fpu.c: In function 'sim_fpu_print_status': common/sim-fpu.c:2508: warning: initialization discards qualifiers from pointer target type common/sim-fpu.c:2566: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type -mike 2010-04-10 Mike Frysinger * sim-fpu.c (sim_fpu_print_status): Add const markings to local "prefix" var. RCS file: /cvs/src/src/sim/common/sim-fpu.c,v retrieving revision 1.17 diff -u -p -r1.17 sim-fpu.c --- sim/common/sim-fpu.c 10 Apr 2010 08:26:45 -0000 1.17 +++ sim/common/sim-fpu.c 10 Apr 2010 20:25:45 -0000 @@ -2497,7 +2497,7 @@ sim_fpu_print_status (int status, void *arg) { int i = 1; - char *prefix = ""; + const char *prefix = ""; while (status >= i) { switch ((sim_fpu_status) (status & i))