Subject: Re: caddr_t removal Q
To: Bucky Katz <bucky@picovex.com>
From: Allen Briggs <briggs@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/13/2007 16:05:37
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 12:50:59PM -0700, Bucky Katz wrote:
> Was this a wholesale replacement of caddr_t by 'void *'?  Because
> doing that would do as much harm as good, since caddr_t does have a
> legitimate use that void * can't fill.

Of course not.  It was done with some care, but there were still
a number of oversights or goofs--catching up on source-changes and
seeing a number of fixups by a number of people led me to ask about
the original reason for the change since it seems to be taking (or
"have taken" at this point?) a non-trivial amount of time & effort
to clean up.

-allen

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