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char *?

char *?

Posted Nov 18, 2004 7:35 UTC (Thu) by Ross (subscriber, #4065)
Parent article: On not getting burned by kmap_atomic()

So virtual addresses are now a pointer to a char, though they will probably
not be used as such and will require casting to another pointer type. Yuck!
That's like the old K&R way of writing generic pointers which was rightfully
considered to be evil. Isn't there a better way?


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