Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 14:40:11 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, terry@artisoft.com Cc: davidg@Root.COM, hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org, julian@freefall.FreeBSD.org, terry@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Terry's changes.. Message-ID: <199508290440.OAA31773@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>Yes and no. The printf(), of which there is an example in the >init_main.c unless Julian has moved it already, is a bad exmaple, >since it wants to be in the initialization code for the module >bein initialized. You add the module, you get the printf, you delete >the module, the printf goes away. Yes, the module might as well print its own data. >You can cast the fuction pointer if you are worried about warnings, >but the copyright stuff, I'd actually prefer as a seperate entity. No, that would only hide the bug. printf() isn't compatible with `void foo(caddr_t)' and the call would break if the kernel was compiled with -mrtd. Bruce
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