Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 09:56:17 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: current@freebsd.org Cc: des@ofug.org Subject: Re: PATCH: type errors in src-tree Message-ID: <200303021756.h22HuHJR005595@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpel5qc6nj.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <3E5EA13E.9020208@liwing.de> <20030301155546.A39174@FreeBSD.org> <3E612F7F.1090002@liwing.de> <xzpel5qc6nj.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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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. John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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