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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.
> 
> DES
> -- 
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no

  
 That assignment seems to work... I thought (void *) was assignable to
 any function pointer...  (Isn't (void *) assignable to any pointer?)

	- Dave R. -

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