From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org>
Cc: root@chaos.analogic.com, "P. Benie" <pjb1008@eng.cam.ac.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use NULL instead of integer 0 in security/selinux/
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 17:55:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <je3c42trx3.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hdsih7d9.fsf@sanosuke.troilus.org> (Michael Poole's message of "Thu, 08 Jul 2004 11:00:02 -0400")
Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org> writes:
> Could you please elaborate the rules of English in which "An integer
> constant expresion with the value 0 [...] is called a null pointer
> constant" does not mean that 0 is a null pointer?
Null pointer != null pointer constant. The latter is rather a syntactical
construct without a real value. The process of converting a null pointer
constant to a null pointer is the point where the decision is made about
the final value and type.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-08 15:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-07 19:25 [PATCH] Use NULL instead of integer 0 in security/selinux/ Chris Wright
2004-07-08 3:12 ` Herbert Xu
2004-07-08 3:27 ` David S. Miller
2004-07-08 3:43 ` Miles Bader
2004-07-08 5:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-07-08 5:35 ` Miles Bader
2004-07-08 15:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-07-08 16:23 ` Dave Jones
2004-07-08 17:57 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-07-09 11:23 ` Roman Zippel
2004-07-10 19:41 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-07-11 10:29 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-07-11 10:54 ` viro
2004-07-11 16:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-07-11 20:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-07-12 15:58 ` Florian Weimer
2004-07-12 16:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-07-08 11:18 ` Herbert Xu
2004-07-08 13:10 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-07-08 13:56 ` Herbert Xu
2004-07-08 14:13 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-07-08 5:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-07-08 16:09 ` Timothy Miller
2004-07-08 16:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-07-08 16:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-07-08 16:52 ` Timothy Miller
[not found] ` <200407090056.51084.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
2004-07-12 15:17 ` Timothy Miller
2004-07-12 16:12 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-07-12 16:51 ` Andrew Pimlott
2004-07-15 16:15 ` Timothy Miller
2004-07-09 20:36 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-09 23:49 ` Paul Jackson
2004-07-10 1:43 ` Kyle Moffett
2004-07-10 1:47 ` Herbert Xu
2004-07-10 21:53 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-07-10 6:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-07-10 6:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-07-10 6:58 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-07-10 9:48 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-10 15:39 ` Roland Dreier
2004-07-11 2:45 ` Eyal Lebedinsky
2004-07-11 21:19 ` Olaf Titz
2004-07-10 9:39 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-10 9:56 ` Herbert Xu
2004-07-11 21:47 ` Olaf Titz
2004-07-13 8:43 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-07-14 3:12 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-07-13 18:53 ` Elladan
2004-07-14 3:15 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-07-10 12:11 ` Roman Zippel
2004-07-10 21:59 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-07-11 4:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-07-10 9:31 ` Eyal Lebedinsky
2004-07-10 22:07 ` Alexandre Oliva
2004-07-10 23:52 ` Paul Jackson
2004-07-11 0:12 ` Tim Wright
2004-07-12 22:03 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-07-10 8:18 ` Florian Weimer
2004-07-08 11:10 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-07-08 11:28 ` Michael Buesch
2004-07-08 11:44 ` Martin Zwickel
2004-07-08 12:06 ` Michael Buesch
2004-07-08 12:38 ` [OT] NULL versus 0 (Re: [PATCH] Use NULL instead of integer 0 in security/selinux/) Kari Hurtta
2004-07-08 12:42 ` Michael Buesch
2004-07-08 12:57 ` Kari Hurtta
2004-07-08 15:25 ` Herbert Xu
2004-07-10 8:22 ` [PATCH] Use NULL instead of integer 0 in security/selinux/ Florian Weimer
2004-07-08 11:43 ` P. Benie
2004-07-08 14:32 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-07-08 15:00 ` Michael Poole
2004-07-08 15:30 ` P. Benie
2004-07-08 15:55 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2004-07-10 7:09 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-07-10 7:02 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-07-10 6:59 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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