On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 11:12:10AM +0200, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> Michael Stefaniuc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Actually it's not a cast. It's a heuristic that the compiler has to make
> > to detect a NULL pointer. The best heuristic for this is (char *) 0.
(char *)0 is bad, 0 is ok, as
> Both "0" and "(void *) 0" work here; which to use is a matter of style
> and thus good for a flame war. But i don't care too much to start one ;)
I'll point out that for the case at hand, a configure test, code
readability is probably not a very important goal. As Ken points out,
the configure
Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> Michael Stefaniuc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Actually it's not a cast. It's a heuristic that the compiler has to make
>> to detect a NULL pointer. The best heuristic for this is (char *) 0.
Duh ... that should have been (void *) 0.
> There's no heuristic involved
Am Samstag, 20. Oktober 2007 00:36:13 schrieb Ken Thomases:
> On Oct 19, 2007, at 5:24 PM, Stefan Dösinger wrote:
> > Am Freitag, 19. Oktober 2007 23:18:51 schrieb Ken Thomases:
> >> This makes the test test the proper thing on Mac OS X. It still
> >> fails, but
> >> for a good reason.
> >> ---
>
Michael Stefaniuc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Actually it's not a cast. It's a heuristic that the compiler has to make
> to detect a NULL pointer. The best heuristic for this is (char *) 0.
There's no heuristic involved here, the assignment is clearly to a
pointer, and 0 is a perfectly valid nu
Ken Thomases wrote:
> On Oct 19, 2007, at 5:24 PM, Stefan Dösinger wrote:
>
>> Am Freitag, 19. Oktober 2007 23:18:51 schrieb Ken Thomases:
>>> This makes the test test the proper thing on Mac OS X. It still
>>> fails, but
>>> for a good reason.
>>> ---
>>> configure.ac |6 +++---
>>> 1 f
On Oct 19, 2007, at 5:24 PM, Stefan Dösinger wrote:
> Am Freitag, 19. Oktober 2007 23:18:51 schrieb Ken Thomases:
>> This makes the test test the proper thing on Mac OS X. It still
>> fails, but
>> for a good reason.
>> ---
>> configure.ac |6 +++---
>> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+),
Am Freitag, 19. Oktober 2007 23:18:51 schrieb Ken Thomases:
> This makes the test test the proper thing on Mac OS X. It still fails, but
> for a good reason.
> ---
> configure.ac |6 +++---
> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> -char *name=NULL;
> +char *name=0;
Shou
