Subject: caddr_t removal Q
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Allen Briggs <briggs@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/13/2007 13:32:52
I was wondering if anyone could enlighten me as to why caddr_t had to
die. I didn't notice any discussion of it--if there was some, please
point me to the appropriate mailing list.
It seems to have taken a number of people a fair bit of time to pick up
the pieces from the change and it seems possible that some of the fixes
could be wrong.
What's wrong with having a generic pointer type that it's safe to do
byte-wise arithmetic on (which is what I've considered caddr_t to be)?
Thanks,
-allen
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