Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 17:37:09 +0000 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/fs/procfs procfs_ctl.c Message-ID: <200303021737.h22Hb9Ig054078@grimreaper.grondar.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 02 Mar 2003 17:13:54 %2B0100." <xzp1y1pd9vh.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: > Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org> writes: > > Can't we redefine caddr_t as void* instead? That seems to make a bunch > > more sense for what caddr_t is actually used for. > > No, you'll get a lot of warnings and errors due to caddr_t being used > in pointer arithmetic. I'd rather we got rid of it altogether (as > discussed many times on -arch). I started doing this a year ago but > gave up because I was trying to do too much (mechanically remove it > from the entire tree) and lots of stuff broke. As I discovered in discussing this online, the void* arithmetic is evil can of worms. I'm doing a 180deg turn on this. :-) Damn. This means cleaning out some local diffs :-(. M -- Mark Murray iumop ap!sdn w,I idlaH To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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