Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 23:50:03 -0800 (PST) From: Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: bin/2752: NULL is used instead of 0 many places Message-ID: <199702180750.XAA02761@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/2752; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl>
To: arnej@imf.unit.no
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/2752: NULL is used instead of 0 many places
Date: 17 Feb 1997 20:24:09 +0100
>> On Mon, 17 Feb 1997 10:10:59 +0100 (CET), Arne Henrik Juul
>> <arnej@imf.unit.no> said:
AHJ> Appy following patch. This changes NULL to 0 most places
AHJ> but to '\0' in character context, to be more stylistically
AHJ> correct.
Why is using '\0' more stylistically correct? A pointer is a pointer,
and one can always assign 0 to it.
One does not assign 0L to an long* either, but simply 0.
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