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Date:      Sun, 02 Mar 2003 13:53:13 +0100
From:      Jens Rehsack <rehsack@liwing.de>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PATCH: type errors in src-tree
Message-ID:  <3E61FEB9.2020102@liwing.de>
References:  <3E5EA13E.9020208@liwing.de> <3E60F1CF.2030400@liwing.de>	<20030301155546.A39174@FreeBSD.org> <3E612F7F.1090002@liwing.de> <xzpel5qc6nj.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Jens Rehsack <rehsack@liwing.de> writes:
> 
>>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 *'.
> 
> 
> This is wrong.  caddr_t should be uniersally replaced with void *.

Good to know. I think I have done it where it's possible, and where 
really (unsigned) char *(*) was required, I've used that. There're some 
places in code where I'm not sure about it's being correct, but that has 
nothing to do with char */void *.

> DES

Jens


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