Re: [PATCH] Use NULL instead of integer 0 in security/selinux/

[Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>]

Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>Denis Vlasenko wrote:
>>
>>>The question is, whether readers of your code (including compiler)
>>>will be able to be sure that there is no error in
>>>	f(a,b,c,d,e,0,f,g,h);
>>>statement or not. Better typecheck that 0.
>>
>>This I agree with, definately.  It's very important to make your code
>>readable, and if it's not obvious from context, make it obvious.  Cases
>>like the above are one of the reasons I like languages like Verilog where
>>you can pass parameters by specifying the parameter name.
> 
> 
> If your function needs nine arguments it is not readable by
> definition. :-)


Yeah... unfortunately, in chip design, you can't really avoid that. 
VHDL has structures which allow you to aggregate different signals, but 
Verilog doesn't have that feature, so you end up with hundreds of module 
parameters sometimes.  That's when pass-by-name really pays off.

But then again, everything you know about software development is 
completely goes out the window when doing chip design.  (i.e. in C, less 
code usually produces better results.  The opposite is true in Verilog.)