mman.h still has MAP_FAILED as caddr_t

Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes sthoenna@efn.org
Thu Oct 9 08:55:00 GMT 2003


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.



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