From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272446AbTHIR3i (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Aug 2003 13:29:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272454AbTHIR3i (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Aug 2003 13:29:38 -0400 Received: from tandu.perlsupport.com ([66.220.6.226]:65000 "EHLO tandu.perlsupport.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272446AbTHIR3h (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Aug 2003 13:29:37 -0400 Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 13:30:01 -0400 From: Chip Salzenberg To: Jamie Lokier Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: NULL. Again. (was Re: [PATCH] 2.4.22pre10: {,un}likely_p()) Message-ID: <20030809173001.GG24349@perlsupport.com> References: <1060087479.796.50.camel@cube> <20030809002117.GB26375@mail.jlokier.co.uk> <20030809081346.GC29616@alpha.home.local> <20030809015142.56190015.davem@redhat.com> <1060425774.4933.73.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030809162332.GB29647@mail.jlokier.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030809162332.GB29647@mail.jlokier.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org According to Jamie Lokier: > Not just K&R. These are different because of varargs: > printf ("%p", NULL); > printf ("%p", 0); *SIGH* I thought incorrect folk wisdom about NULL and zero and pointer conversions had long since died out. More fool I. Please, *please*, _no_one_else_ argue about NULL/zero/false etc. until after reading this: ===[[ http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/s5.html ]]=== I thank you, and linux users everywhere thank you. -- Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - "I wanted to play hopscotch with the impenetrable mystery of existence, but he stepped in a wormhole and had to go in early." // MST3K