Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754003AbXHOKbR (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Aug 2007 06:31:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751233AbXHOKbB (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Aug 2007 06:31:01 -0400 Received: from smtpq1.groni1.gr.home.nl ([213.51.130.200]:56527 "EHLO smtpq1.groni1.gr.home.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750800AbXHOKbA (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Aug 2007 06:31:00 -0400 Message-ID: <46C2D4F7.30700@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:27:03 +0200 From: Rene Herman User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Engelhardt CC: Jason Uhlenkott , Arjan van de Ven , Tim Bird , linux kernel Subject: Re: kfree(0) - ok? References: <46C233CB.9000602@am.sony.com> <1187132149.2618.2.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20070814232107.GA4265@aurum.uhlenkott.net> <46C2BB60.6010909@gmail.com> <46C2CE42.4010303@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 939 Lines: 25 On 08/15/2007 12:20 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Aug 15 2007 11:58, Rene Herman wrote: >>>>>>> NULL is not 0 though. >>>>>> It is. Its representation isn't guaranteed to be all-bits-zero, >> He said the null _pointer_ isn't guaranteed to be all-bits zero. And it >> isn't. Read the standard or the faq. > > 0 is all-bits-zero. > NULL is 0. ("It is.", above) NULL is a define. It does not have a binary presentation. He was talking about the representation of the null pointer, not of 0. Retarded language lawyering over in comp.lang.c please where all the other people who think they just have to be brilliant for having been able to read a standards documents go to wank off. Rene. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/