Re: SLUB: Return ZERO_SIZE_PTR for kmalloc(0)

[Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>]

On 06/06/2007 11:26 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:

> > Yes, it's internal but given that this is open-source 
> > which, optimistically, is read many more times than it's 
> > written one should still strive for code that reads nice 
> > as far as I'm concerned. It's obviously also not hugely 
> > important but it's just that ZERO_SIZE_PTR makes my neck 
> > hair stand up.
>
> PTR_TO_NOTHING? 
> PTR_TO_0BYTES?
> PTR_TO_0SIZE?
> PTR_TO_ZERO_SIZE?
> NOT_QUITE_NULL? :-)

Particularly like that one. Wouldn't object to that at all. Hey, they tell 
us it's just some inconsequential internal thingy anyway... :-)

> FULL? 

Almost as nice. DULL? BULL?

NOTHING?
EMPTY? <-- nice one as far as I'm concerned.

Rene.
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