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From: Jason Uhlenkott <jasonuhl@jasonuhl.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>,
	linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kfree(0) - ok?
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:21:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070814232107.GA4265@aurum.uhlenkott.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1187132149.2618.2.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>

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, 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).

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-14 23:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-14 22:59 kfree(0) - ok? Tim Bird
2007-08-14 22:55 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-08-14 23:21   ` Jason Uhlenkott [this message]
2007-08-15  7:28     ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-15  8:37       ` Rene Herman
2007-08-15  9:20         ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-15  9:43           ` Jason Uhlenkott
2007-08-15  9:58           ` Rene Herman
2007-08-15 10:20             ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-15 10:27               ` Rene Herman
2007-08-15 13:58               ` Kyle Moffett
2007-08-15 14:06                 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-15 14:34                   ` Kyle Moffett
2007-08-15 16:01               ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-08-15  8:52       ` Jason Uhlenkott
2007-08-15  9:18       ` Andreas Schwab
2007-08-15  9:32       ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2007-08-14 23:42   ` Satyam Sharma
2007-08-15  0:19     ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-17 18:22     ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-17 18:31       ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-08-17 18:50         ` Satyam Sharma
2007-08-17 18:37       ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-17 20:43       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-17 21:17         ` Satyam Sharma
2007-08-17 21:32           ` Satyam Sharma
2007-08-17 21:13       ` Satyam Sharma
2007-08-17 21:14         ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-17 21:42           ` Pekka Enberg
2007-08-17 23:22             ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-17 23:40             ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-08-18  0:02               ` Satyam Sharma
2007-08-18  1:03               ` Christoph Lameter
2007-08-18  8:10               ` Pekka Enberg
2007-08-18  8:21               ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-17 21:46           ` Satyam Sharma
2007-08-14 23:13 ` Satyam Sharma
     [not found] <fa.oMJ6o9vN0dnAoFR83/o4hg1EptE@ifi.uio.no>
2007-08-14 23:05 ` Robert Hancock

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