From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756158AbYD2GXU (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:23:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752586AbYD2GXM (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:23:12 -0400 Received: from eth7959.sa.adsl.internode.on.net ([150.101.82.22]:34437 "EHLO hawking.rebel.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751024AbYD2GXL (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:23:11 -0400 Message-ID: <4816BEC8.1080708@davidnewall.com> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:53:04 +0930 From: David Newall User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080227) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cyrill Gorcunov CC: Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , Markus Metzger , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: DS cleanup - dont treat 0 as NULL References: <20080428191504.GA6842@cvg> In-Reply-To: <20080428191504.GA6842@cvg> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > - return 0; > + return NULL; Why? The constant 0 is C's official symbol for a null pointer.