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On Feb 18, 2004, at 10:36 AM, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> I'm not sure why we use uint64_t. It could predate uintptr_t. What does
> cvs blame say?

We use uint64_t there because it's the largest pointer size of any 
platform we support.  This means that a 32-bit sysctl running on a 
sparc64 system (for example) will work properly.

Jason Thorpe
'76 Westfalia ('Pod')
San Francisco, CA
http://www.shagadelic.org/pod/


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