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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 20:56:22 +0200
From: Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
To: Kasper Dupont <kasperd@daimi.au.dk>
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Subject: Re: [patch] 2.5.9 remove warnings
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On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 11:08:08PM +0200, Kasper Dupont wrote:
> Wouldn't "!!(x)" make more sense here than "(x) != 0"?
> (I don't like comparing pointers with integers.)

No, == 0 means, that the pointer is invalid, so != 0 means, the
pointer is valid. You can find this in the C99-Standard at least.

So, this is perfectly normal ;-)

Regards

Ingo Oeser
-- 
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