Re: Why doesn't __get_free_pages return "void *"?

[Sourav Sen <sourav@csa.iisc.ernet.in>]

I am not very sure, but perhaps that is to shut up gcc ...

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sourav

On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Timur Tabi wrote:

> __get_free_pages is a function that returns a virtual pointer to allocated
> memory.  Why does the prototype return "unsigned long" instead of "void *"?
> kmalloc() returns "void *", and it's almost the same thing as gfp.
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