Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2018 13:59:16 -0700 From: Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org> To: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> Cc: src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r336835 - head/lib/libc/gen Message-ID: <CAG6CVpV78tghDqgE-nGp0WeGZAxOpVp_y%2BpyZLob0DuRuHq_ug@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20180728203253.GB40119@kib.kiev.ua> References: <201807281908.w6SJ80qo089859@repo.freebsd.org> <20180728200611.GA40119@kib.kiev.ua> <CAG6CVpVEhyutDe7DL7ECVbKi=JpbD%2BAD8d633=eLX6-VbD4i9g@mail.gmail.com> <20180728203253.GB40119@kib.kiev.ua>
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On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 1:32 PM, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> wrote: > Our existing practice is to not provide an advise in the man pages > for the userspace code which would harm the portability or the standard > conformance. Perhaps, but you do not have to look beyond this manual page to find that such a practice, if it is even nominally applied, is not followed consistently. The remainder of the document spells the terminating value as plain "NULL." FreeBSD manual pages consistently refer to NULL as a pointer value. The Linux manual page spells the terminating value (char *)NULL and explicitly documents why. That is perhaps both pedantically correct and clear. I am amenable to such a change. > I am not so sure about CheriBSD, for instance. I observe simply that CheriBSD is not FreeBSD and that CHERI is an exotic architecture. Best, Conrad
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