From: Eli Carter <eli.carter@inet.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Style question: Should one check for NULL pointers?
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 15:52:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F0DD21B.5010408@inet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0307101606060.22398-100000@netrider.rowland.org
Alan Stern wrote:
[snip]
> Ultimately this comes down to a question of style and taste. This
> particular issue is not addressed in Documentation/CodingStyle so I'm
> raising it here. My personal preference is for code that means what it
> says; if a pointer is checked it should be because there is a genuine
> possibility that the pointer _is_ NULL. I see no reason for pure
> paranoia, particularly if it's not commented as such.
>
> Comments, anyone?
BUG_ON() perhaps?
Eli
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-10 20:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-10 20:28 Style question: Should one check for NULL pointers? Alan Stern
2003-07-10 20:52 ` Eli Carter [this message]
2003-07-10 22:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-07-11 2:35 ` Alan Stern
2003-07-11 14:29 ` Eli Carter
2003-07-11 15:16 ` Alan Stern
2003-07-12 18:40 ` Horst von Brand
2003-07-13 21:42 ` Alan Stern
2003-07-11 20:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-07-10 22:54 ` David D. Hagood
2003-07-11 4:02 ` Hollis Blanchard
2003-07-11 4:38 ` Hua Zhong
2003-07-11 14:13 ` David D. Hagood
2003-07-11 14:52 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-11 15:39 ` Alan Stern
2003-07-11 19:32 ` Horst von Brand
2003-07-11 20:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-07-11 21:21 ` Alan Stern
2003-07-13 22:53 ` Ingo Oeser
[not found] <7QmZ.5RP.17@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-07-10 21:00 ` Dennis Bliefernicht
2003-07-10 22:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-07-10 22:28 ` Larry McVoy
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