From: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: DS cleanup - dont treat 0 as NULL
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:00:45 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48175B45.2030500@davidnewall.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4816C258.7050203@zytor.com>
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> David Newall wrote:
>> Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
>>> - return 0;
>>> + return NULL;
>>
>> Why? The constant 0 is C's official symbol for a null pointer.
>
> It's still bad style.
I disagree, but I don't want to debate the point.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-29 17:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-28 19:15 [PATCH] x86: DS cleanup - dont treat 0 as NULL Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-04-28 19:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-28 19:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-28 20:00 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-04-28 20:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-29 6:23 ` David Newall
2008-04-29 6:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-29 17:30 ` David Newall [this message]
2008-04-29 7:50 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
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