From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Aug 21 21:45: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A257037B400 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 21:45:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from InterJet.dellroad.org (adsl-63-194-81-26.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.194.81.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27E2B43E4A for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 21:45:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archie@dellroad.org) Received: from arch20m.dellroad.org (arch20m.dellroad.org [10.1.1.20]) by InterJet.dellroad.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA97564; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 21:30:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from archie@localhost) by arch20m.dellroad.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g7M4U3F09115; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 21:30:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archie) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <200208220430.g7M4U3F09115@arch20m.dellroad.org> Subject: Re: NULL In-Reply-To: <20020821.182225.58446828.imp@bsdimp.com> "from M. Warner Losh at Aug 21, 2002 06:22:25 pm" To: "M. Warner Losh" Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 21:30:03 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL88 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG M. Warner Losh writes: > So I'm not sure this is the right thing to do. These abstract changes > seem fairly simple, but in the context of complex programs, it could > be much harder to track down. Also, we're getting kinda late in the > current release cycle to be making changes this fundamental.... Sounds reasonable. I'll stop after fixing some newly discovered misuses of 'NULL' (there are lots) and we'll leave the actual changeover, if any, for further study. -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Packet Design * http://www.packetdesign.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message