Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 09:14:42 -0700 From: Mike Hunter <mhunter@ack.Berkeley.EDU> To: Harti Brandt <harti@freebsd.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: please help with: warning: initialization makes integer from pointer Message-ID: <20041008161442.GA9862@ack.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <20041008173138.Y14215@beagle.kn.op.dlr.de> References: <20041005054213.GA11770@lesanti.hq.sinectis.com.ar> <20041005202816.GA14973@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> <20041005205040.GH31397@lesanti.hq.sinectis.com.ar> <20041006060437.GA23364@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> <20041006144220.GA29653@lesanti.hq.sinectis.com.ar> <416579E1.8050308@nuclearelephant.com> <20041008152905.GA3106@dan.emsphone.com> <20041008173138.Y14215@beagle.kn.op.dlr.de>
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On Oct 08, "Harti Brandt" wrote: > On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Dan Nelson wrote: > > Memset is actually not portable if the structure contains pointers because > it would initialize the pointers to 0 values not to 0 pointers. A 0 > pointer not necessarily has a 0 value. A pointer can be portably be > initialize to the 0-pointer only by assigning NULL (or 0) (or by assigning > another pointer that is alreay initialized). Sick! Are there actually systems out there that don't have "all-zero" NULL pointers? You have officially shattered my previously held beliefs about the sacredness of memset :( Mike
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