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SubjectRe: [Cocci] spatch for trivial pointer comparison style?
On Fri, 14 Nov 2014, SF Markus Elfring wrote:

> > I don't think that the change is desirable in all cases. There are
> > functions like kmalloc where NULL means failure and !p seems like the
> > reasonable choice. But there maybe other cases where NULL is somehow
> > a meaningful value.
>
> How do you think about to adjust checks for null pointers not only
> in Linux source files but also in other applications?
> Are there any more software design challenges to consider with the
> definition of the preprocessor symbol "NULL"?

Other applications may have other preferences.

julia


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