Build fails on Clang with const pointer error
Building the inference code on Ubuntu with newer Clang fails with a const-correctness error in ggml-bitnet-mad.cpp.
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3 public reports · first reported 3 February 2026 · last reported 28 June 2026
What's going wrong
Users building the BitNet inference code on Ubuntu with newer Clang or GCC hit a compile error in the mad kernel source, where a pointer is declared non-const but assigned from a const value.
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