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Re: Why are there physmem and physmem64?

To: Miwa Susumu <miwarin%gmail.com@localhost>
Subject: Re: Why are there physmem and physmem64?
From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 15:22:23 +0100

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 11:17:54PM +0900, Miwa Susumu wrote:
> How about replace physmem64 to physmem ?
> 
> remove: physmem
> rename: physmem64 -> physmem

This breaks binary compatibility (old programs might query "physmem"
hard coded as a 32bit value).

Martin

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