Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 18:56:04 -0700 (MST) From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: printing vm_offset_t's Message-ID: <199901110156.SAA02137@narnia.plutotech.com> In-Reply-To: <13977.11142.915199.277600@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <Pine.LNX.4.04.9901101442510.14308-100000@feral-gw> <13977.11657.998775.230402@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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In article <13977.11657.998775.230402@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> you wrote: > > Matthew Jacob writes: > > > > > > On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > > > > > > Matthew Jacob writes: > > > > > > > > Hmm. How about %p? > > > > > > That's another option, but unless you cast the arg to a pointer (like > > > void *), you get > > > > > > warning: format argument is not a pointer (arg 4) > > > > > > > Maybe this is why Eduardo Horvath went through all the NetBSD kernel > > source and deepsixed vm_offset_t. > > Ick. That seems rather extreeme. I can't imagine all the external code > that broke when vm_offset_t disappeared... > > Drew The main reason why vm_offset_t was nuked is because it forces virtual and physical address spaces to be of the same size. This is a bad assumtion. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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