Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 06 Jun 2007 23:58:33 +0200 | From | Rene Herman <> | Subject | Re: SLUB: Return ZERO_SIZE_PTR for kmalloc(0) |
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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.
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