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SubjectRe: SLUB: Return ZERO_SIZE_PTR for kmalloc(0)
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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