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From: faustus@ucbcad.berkeley.edu (Wayne A. Christopher)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: How to get Ada private types in C
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Date: Mon, 16-Mar-87 18:12:05 EST
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In article <15039@sun.uucp>, guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
> Well, "caddr_t" isn't specific to 4BSD; other versions of UNIX have it.
> However, it's not really a "new" type; it's just a "typedef" name for
> "char *".

The problem with "caddr_t" is that it doesn't look like a pointer...  Although
that may be a good thing since it will make you not want to dereference it
without casting it...

	Wayne