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Subject: Re: Is __ptr_t needed?
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On Tue, 28 Sept 2021 at 12:29, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>
> On Sep 28 2021, Jonathan Wakely via Libc-alpha wrote:
>
> > <bits/cdefs.h> says:
> >
> > /* This is not a typedef so `const __ptr_t' does the right thing.  */
> > #define __ptr_t void *
> >
> > But nothing in glibc headers ever use that macro.
>
> See commit f17a42333f.

Yes, that's basically the answer I expected. Hyrum's Law strikes again.

Oh well, I can use _Ptr_t and it's one character shorter anyway.