Q: void* vs. unsigned long

B. James Phillippe (bryan@terran.org)
Mon, 15 Feb 1999 12:18:15 -0800 (PST)


Greetings,

I'm curious about the mixed use of void* and unsigned long in the kernel to
represent addresses (as in tqueue.h vs. timer.h). Is it simply a case of
author preference, or is it subtle semantics for the case where a datam is
most likely an integer value but _could_ also be a pointer? Or is it more
complicated? With the future in mind, what is recommended to budding
kernel hackers?

thanks,
-bp

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B. James Phillippe		. bryan@terran.org
Software Engineer, WGT Inc.	. http://www.terran.org/~bryan

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