From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 10 13:07:22 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 911D016A4DE for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:07:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onlyopensource@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.184]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4093D43D45 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:07:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from onlyopensource@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id g2so616369nfe for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 06:07:07 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=QIqsfEFxi8oMSyXP2CQLYpljV0wHX7uwOwO5Y6G7oeAVDQBqPWxJEt9JRp5FCklsZdRf23uNVTuzmi70C+ttfWDhuF19d9/fXa+R+s/8isStPrL0df5gtMwfa3YwRjlj1oVMpwSUBlpCC4tO4BWXpS6u5uQ5tqLcOwGHm/qe7mc= Received: by 10.78.139.5 with SMTP id m5mr1252741hud; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 06:07:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.180.9 with HTTP; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 06:07:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 18:37:02 +0530 From: "Only OpenSource" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: caddr_t or void * X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:07:22 -0000 Hello caddr_t which is a typedef for char* seems to be used quite often in the kernel code. Would void* be preferable to caddr_t ? Thanks for any insight on this. -- oo@@oo