On 02/13/2018 13:43, Ed Maste wrote: > On 13 February 2018 at 14:23, Ian Lepore <i...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> On Tue, 2018-02-13 at 19:17 +0000, Ed Maste wrote: >>> Author: emaste >>> Date: Tue Feb 13 19:17:48 2018 >>> New Revision: 329237 >>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/329237 >>> >>> Log: >>> libkern: use nul for terminating char rather than 0 >>> >>> Akin to the change made in r188080 for lib/libc/string/. >>> >>> Reported by: bde >>> Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation >> >> There are many ways to spell 0. Why are we using something other than >> the simplest way? Is it a style rule thing, or is it portability- >> correctness, or what? > > I made the change to improve consistency between lib/libc/string and > sys/libkern, which is what Bruce commented on some time ago. I don't > have a personal preference for 0 or '\0' but definitely believe that > if we have multiple, similar copies of a function they ought to avoid > gratuitous differences. (I'm happy to change both trees to 0 if that's > preferred.)
I prefer '\0' here because it tells the reader that it's a NUL character, as opposed to a NULL pointer or a zero integer. Yes, the reader should already know that, but the author can /help/ the reader by communicating more clearly and completely. Eric _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
