From: Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu>
To: Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com>, Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org, doug@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: Re: [TUHS] reviving a bit of WWB
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2020 16:26:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202009202026.08KKQ2x6137303@tahoe.cs.dartmouth.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2009201609410.10514@sd-119843.dedibox.fr>
> (Of course, that assumes NULL is 0, but I don't think I've run into any
> architecture so braindead as to not have NULL=0.)
It has nothing to do with machine architecture. The C standard
says 0 coerces to the null pointer. NULL, defined in <stddef.h>,
is part of the library, not the language. I always use 0,
because NULL is a frill.
Doug
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-20 20:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-19 1:51 Doug McIlroy
2020-09-20 18:42 ` arnold
2020-09-20 19:28 ` Will Senn
2020-09-20 20:12 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-09-20 20:26 ` Doug McIlroy [this message]
2020-09-20 20:57 ` Doug McIlroy
2020-09-20 22:13 ` Clem Cole
2020-09-21 20:43 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-09-20 20:58 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-09-20 21:33 ` Brantley Coile
2020-10-07 5:43 ` scj
2020-09-20 21:35 ` John Cowan
2021-02-02 23:08 ` Greg A. Woods
2021-02-02 23:47 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-03 0:11 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-03 0:19 ` Larry McVoy
2021-02-03 2:04 ` Richard Salz
2021-02-03 3:32 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-03 4:32 ` M Douglas McIlroy
2021-02-03 11:27 ` Peter Jeremy via TUHS
2021-02-03 20:09 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-03 20:13 ` Niklas Karlsson
2021-02-03 23:46 ` Tom Lyon
2021-02-03 22:19 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-02-03 22:55 ` M Douglas McIlroy
2020-09-20 22:15 ` Clem Cole
2020-09-20 22:47 ` John Cowan
2020-09-21 20:48 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-09-21 20:46 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-09-24 2:25 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-09-24 2:33 ` Clem Cole
2020-09-25 0:18 ` [TUHS] One's complement (was: reviving a bit of WWB) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-09-25 0:22 ` Warner Losh
2020-09-25 1:39 ` John Cowan
2020-09-27 5:54 ` [TUHS] reviving a bit of WWB Dave Horsfall
2020-09-24 17:19 ` Paul Winalski
2020-09-24 18:17 ` John Cowan
2020-10-07 5:47 ` scj
2020-10-07 9:20 ` arnold
2020-10-08 0:27 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-10-08 3:08 ` John Cowan
2020-09-20 22:51 Norman Wilson
2020-09-20 23:00 Norman Wilson
2020-09-20 23:53 ` Clem Cole
2020-09-21 0:00 ` Clem Cole
2020-09-21 2:24 ` John Cowan
2020-09-21 0:09 ` Warner Losh
2020-09-21 1:05 ` Clem Cole
2020-09-21 5:55 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-09-21 5:59 ` Warner Losh
2020-09-21 18:40 ` Paul Winalski
2020-09-21 19:56 ` Dan Cross
2020-09-21 20:50 ` John Cowan
2020-09-21 21:22 ` Rob Pike
2020-09-21 21:57 ` Clem Cole
2020-09-21 23:56 ` John Cowan
2020-09-22 0:54 ` Richard Salz
2020-09-21 21:39 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-09-25 14:19 Doug McIlroy
2020-09-28 17:35 ` Angelo Papenhoff
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