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To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org>
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Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 17:42:28 +0100
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Subject: Re: NULL vs 0 vs 0L bikeshed time
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Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org> writes:
> I'd like to commit the following patch. It makes sure that for C
> and the kernel, NULL is a ((void *)0)

This is not correct, because it makes NULL unusable for function
pointers; you can assign 0 to a function pointer, but not (void *)0.

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