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Date:      Sat, 1 Mar 2003 18:36:42 -0500
From:      Barney Wolff <barney@pit.databus.com>
To:        Jens Rehsack <rehsack@liwing.de>
Cc:        Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PATCH: type errors in src-tree
Message-ID:  <20030301233642.GA64401@pit.databus.com>
In-Reply-To: <3E612F7F.1090002@liwing.de>
References:  <3E5EA13E.9020208@liwing.de> <3E60F1CF.2030400@liwing.de> <20030301155546.A39174@FreeBSD.org> <3E612F7F.1090002@liwing.de>

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On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 11:09:03PM +0100, Jens Rehsack wrote:
> ...
> >>-	u_char	**bufp;
> >>+	caddr_t		*bufp;
> ...
> Of course. Very often in ilmid.c the type caddr_t was used, and nearly 
> the same count of 'const char *'s was used. I've searched the include 
> files for caddr_t (core address) and found it defined as 'char *', so I 
> decided to used commonly caddr_t - maybe later I check which of them 
> could be changed into 'c_caddr_t' for being const. But You can of couse 
> replace all 'caddr_t' which 'char *'.

Shouldn't we care about u_char vs char?  On some machines it matters,
and on all machines compilers tend to notice and generate warnings.

-- 
Barney Wolff         http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf
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