Re: kfree(0) - ok?

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Wed Aug 15 2007 - 03:29:32 EST



On Aug 14 2007 16:21, Jason Uhlenkott wrote:
>On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 15:55:48 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> NULL is not 0 though.
>
>It is. Its representation isn't guaranteed to be all-bits-zero,

C guarantees that.

>but the constant value 0 when used in pointer context is always a
>null pointer (and in fact the standard requires that NULL be
>#defined as 0 or a cast thereof).
>

Jan
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