caddr_t

Stanley Friesen sarima at tdatirv.UUCP
Tue Mar 12 03:09:33 AEST 1991


In article <1991Mar8.192533.717 at citib.com> scairns at 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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