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Date:      Thu, 28 Jan 1999 01:21:04 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
To:        Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>
Cc:        John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, archie@whistle.com, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: btokup() macro in sys/malloc.h
Message-ID:  <199901280921.BAA02697@apollo.backplane.com>
References:   <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901280334400.28225-100000@janus.syracuse.net>

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:In cases, -Wall is bogus anyway. Here's one:
:foo.c:89: warning: char format, void arg (arg 2)
:        void *region;
:                printf("mem open failed: %s\n", region);
:
:According to standards, a void pointer may be freely used instead of any
:other type of pointer, both as an lvalue and to assign to the other pointer.
:Printf(), hence, wouldn't see a difference (of course). Gcc should not
:complain about various void pointer things like this.

    I think that's an appropriate warning... if you want to treat 'region'
    as a char *, you have to cast it to one.  The standards do not cover
    GCC's automatic var-args checking for printf() and related routines
    anyway.  I consider them 'weird' cases myself... not really standard,
    but helpful.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>

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