Rethinking the futex API - why change the type that uaddr points to? [LWN.net]

Rethinking the futex API - why change the type that uaddr points to?

Posted Jun 23, 2020 4:00 UTC (Tue) by pr1268 (guest, #24648)
Parent article: Rethinking the futex API

    int futex(int *uaddr, [...]

And from the proposed patch set mentioned below:

    int futex_wait(void *uaddr, [...]
    int futex_wait_time32(void *uaddr, [...]
    int futex_wake(void *uaddr, [...]

Just curious, and I couldn't find in our editor's article, nor in the comments: why is uaddr being changed from an int * to a void *?

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