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From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org>
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To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org,
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/fs/procfs procfs_ctl.c
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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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