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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:00:45 +0930
From: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: DS cleanup - dont treat 0 as NULL
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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.