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Date:      Sun, 02 Mar 2003 17:37:09 +0000
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/fs/procfs procfs_ctl.c 
Message-ID:  <200303021737.h22Hb9Ig054078@grimreaper.grondar.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 02 Mar 2003 17:13:54 %2B0100." <xzp1y1pd9vh.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> 

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Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes:
> Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org> writes:
> > Can't we redefine caddr_t as void* instead? That seems to make a bunch
> > more sense for what caddr_t is actually used for.
> 
> No, you'll get a lot of warnings and errors due to caddr_t being used
> in pointer arithmetic.  I'd rather we got rid of it altogether (as
> discussed many times on -arch).  I started doing this a year ago but
> gave up because I was trying to do too much (mechanically remove it
> from the entire tree) and lots of stuff broke.

As I discovered in discussing this online, the void* arithmetic is
evil can of worms. I'm doing a 180deg turn on this. :-)

Damn. This means cleaning out some local diffs :-(.

M
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Mark Murray
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