From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: dlstevens@us.ibm.com
Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, adobriyan@gmail.com,
carlsonj@workingcode.com, linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org,
viro@ftp.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ppp: don't use 0 in pointer context
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 14:47:12 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060208.144712.66821895.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF71FA79DA.C4F20DA5-ON8825710F.007B701A-8825710F.007CB97E@us.ibm.com>
From: David Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 14:45:08 -0800
> Why would sparse complain about this? 0 is a well-defined
> pointer value (the only value guaranteed to be by the language).
Because sparse goes beyond the standards and tries to
catch cases that usually end up being bugs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-08 22:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-08 22:28 [PATCH] ppp: don't use 0 in pointer context Alexey Dobriyan
2006-02-08 22:14 ` James Carlson
2006-02-08 22:19 ` Herbert Xu
2006-02-08 22:45 ` David Stevens
2006-02-08 22:47 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2006-02-08 22:51 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-02-08 23:00 ` Rick Jones
2006-02-08 23:08 ` Herbert Xu
2006-02-08 23:22 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-02-08 23:26 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-02-08 23:49 ` Herbert Xu
2006-02-08 23:58 ` David S. Miller
2006-02-09 0:05 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-02-09 0:06 ` Herbert Xu
2006-02-08 22:23 ` Roland Dreier
2006-02-08 22:44 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-02-09 13:15 ` James Carlson
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