Re: [PATCH] x86: DS cleanup - dont treat 0 as NULL

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Tue Apr 29 2008 - 03:50:29 EST


On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:23 AM, David Newall <davidn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> > - return 0;
> > + return NULL;
>
> Why? The constant 0 is C's official symbol for a null pointer.
>

Yes, but by using NULL explicilty allows you to separate _pointers_ from
numbers on review process. Or maybe you wanna drop NULL at all? I dont
think you will like that ;)
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