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Re: mman.h still has MAP_FAILED as caddr_t


On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 01:54:47AM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> The prototypes for mmap, etc. were recently changed from using caddr_t
> to void *, as called for by SUSV3, but MAP_FAILED wasn't changed.
> SUSV3 doesn't specifically say anything about how MAP_FAILED should
> be defined, but other platforms I've seen have a (void *) cast.
> 
> --- include/sys/mman.h.orig	2003-09-20 13:32:09.000000000 -0700
> +++ include/sys/mman.h	2003-10-09 01:30:46.735724800 -0700
> @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
>  #define MAP_ANONYMOUS 0x20
>  #define MAP_ANON MAP_ANONYMOUS
>  
> -#define MAP_FAILED ((caddr_t)-1)
> +#define MAP_FAILED ((void *)-1)
>  
>  /*
>   * Flags for msync.

Thanks for the patch.

Applied,
Corinna

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