From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Jan 10 18:04:49 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA15382 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 18:04:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from narnia.plutotech.com (narnia.plutotech.com [206.168.67.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA15377 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 18:04:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com) Received: (from gibbs@localhost) by narnia.plutotech.com (8.9.1/8.7.3) id SAA02137; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 18:56:04 -0700 (MST) Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 18:56:04 -0700 (MST) From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Message-Id: <199901110156.SAA02137@narnia.plutotech.com> To: Andrew Gallatin cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: printing vm_offset_t's X-Newsgroups: pluto.freebsd.alpha In-Reply-To: <13977.11142.915199.277600@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <13977.11657.998775.230402@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980818 ("Laura") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.0-CURRENT (i386)) Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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