On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, [email protected] wrote: > On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:00:30 PDT, Linus Torvalds said: > > > #define BADPTR ((void *)16) > > > I bet you'd find *more* problems that way than by returning NULL, and > > you'd also avoid the whole problem with "if (!ptr) return -ENOMEM". > > Hmm.. this looks like a good contender for "first usage of #ifndef CONFIG_STABLE" The warning? Sure but the BADPTR (or ZERO_SIZE_PTR now) will stay. It is definitely an error to deference an object that has no size. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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