The BSD solution to this problem is __DECONST(), a macro which basically casts through `uintptr_t`. #define __DECONST(type, var) ((type)(uintptr_t)(const

The BSD solution to this problem is __DECONST(), a macro which basically casts through `uintptr_t`. #define __DECONST(type, var) ((type)(uintptr_t)(const void*)(var))