Subject: Re: Making more LP64 friendly.
To: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
From: Niels Provos <provos@citi.umich.edu>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/04/2004 15:41:58
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 09:29:07AM -0800, Matt Thomas wrote:
> The other thing is adding a const to the SPLAY_FIND function since that
> element is read-only.  However, my problem with SPLAY_FIND is that takes
> an element rather than a key type.  That could be fixed by using two
> comparision routines, one for comparing struct and one to compare
> a element and a key type.  Right now I work around that by moving the
> key item to the beginning of the struct and casting.  But that's evil.

It would be nice if you would involve me in these discussions.  Tree.h
is being used by all three of the BSDs and changing APIs at this point
is not a good idea.

Niels.