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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@mail.ru>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] futex: s/0/NULL/ in pointer context
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 15:19:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200501091519.33202.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200501091123.31402.adobriyan@mail.ru>

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On Sünndag 09 Januar 2005 10:23, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> @@ -236,7 +236,7 @@
>   */
>  static inline void get_key_refs(union futex_key *key)
>  {
> -	if (key->both.ptr != 0) {
> +	if (key->both.ptr != NULL) {
>  		if (key->both.offset & 1)
>  			atomic_inc(&key->shared.inode->i_count);
>  		else

Actually, many consider the preferred way to write this

	if (key->both.ptr) {

instead, since the condition you want to check is 'is key->both.ptr
a valid pointer', not 'is key->both.ptr inequal to the invalid
pointer'. The normal use for NULL is only in assignments and 
initializations, not in comparisons.

	Arnd <><

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      reply	other threads:[~2005-01-09 14:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-09  9:23 [PATCH] futex: s/0/NULL/ in pointer context Alexey Dobriyan
2005-01-09 14:19 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]

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