This is just out of curiosity, not a real issue. I use i386 RELENG_7.
I recently played with dd-ing memory contents out of /dev/mem and examining various stuff. I "intuitively" expected dd to reach EOF at 0xFFFFFFFF (i.e. maximum possible address for i386 non-PAE), but it continued on. Apparently this happens because off_t is somewhere assigned to caddr_t (or something like that) without any extra checks. So, I am curious if this intentional, unintentional or it just happened to be this way and nobody really cares.
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