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From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org>
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To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
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Subject: Re: PATCH: type errors in src-tree 
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John Polstra writes:
> In article <xzpel5qc6nj.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>,
> Dag-Erling Smorgrav  <des@ofug.org> wrote:
> > 
> > This is wrong.  caddr_t should be uniersally replaced with void *.
> 
> Not quite.  There is (or at least used to be) a lot of code that
> assumed you could do address arithmetic on a caddr_t.  You can't do
> that on a void *, at least not in ANSI C.  I think gcc lets you do
> it, but it's an extension.

As I have discovered. I specifically looked for this, and my misreading
of the spec is now clear. :-)

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