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Re: 3.4 PATCH: Fix Tru64 UNIX V4.0F bootstrap failure
Matt Kraai writes:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 03:07:09PM +0200, Rainer Orth wrote:
> > This happens because (unlike Tru64 UNIX V5.1), <sys/mman.h> defines
> >
> > #define MAP_FAILED (-1L) /* unsuccessful return from mmap() */
> >
> > The following patch fixes this and allows the bootstrap to continue.
>
> Would it be better to cast it to char * instead, as is done in
> ggc-page.c?
I wondered so myself, but since all address variables are declared as void *,
I didn't see the point in doing so: this seems to add unnecessary
confusion.
Rainer