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From: sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: caddr_t
Message-ID: <167@tdatirv.UUCP>
Date: 11 Mar 91 17:09:33 GMT
References: <1991Mar8.192533.717@citib.com>
Reply-To: sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
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In article <1991Mar8.192533.717@citib.com> scairns@citib.com (Scott Cairns) writes:
>Can anyone give me a consise description of exactly
>what "caddr_t" is?  It's not in K & R (version 1).

It is not a fundamental type, it is a typedef.  It is used in the UNIX kernel
as the type of an arbitrary machine address (of arbitrary type).
It is *usually* define as (char *), but it may be something else if (char *)
will not hold all possible addresses.
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